Frontier Airlines March Traffic up 2%

Frontier Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings

, today reported preliminary traffic results for March 2011. Frontier's traffic increased 2% to 1.11 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) while capacity was also up 2% to 1.32 billion available seat miles (ASMs). Frontier Airlines served 1.26 million passengers in March, a slight increase from March 2010. Frontier also achieved its thirteenth consecutive record monthly load factor this month. March's load factor was 84.4% compared to 84.1% in the same month last year.