AirTran Airways, the principal airline at Akron-Canton Airport, posted a company record for passenger traffic in December and for all of 2008 – even as traffic at other airlines slipped.
AirTran flew more than 1.4 billion “revenue passenger miles” in December and nearly 19 billion for all of 2008.
Revenue passenger miles are equal to one paying passenger flown one mile. It is a key industry measure of traffic. AirTran’s revenue passenger miles were up 2.3 percent for December and 9.6 percent for the year.
