They also expect passenger revenue to increase between 5-7% for the quarter and 7-9% for the full year.
Some firms say they have offset lost passenger revenue by adding more trips.
Amtrak carried more than 31 million passengers last year and covers most of its operating costs from passenger revenue.
The company expects consolidated passenger revenue per available seat mile to grow between 9.5% and 10.5% year-over-year in the third quarter.
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In the 30 years since airline deregulation, passenger revenue miles have tripled.
The airline improved its key financial metric of passenger revenue per available seat mile (or PRASM) by 5.5% year-over-year, according to a statement.
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Midwest Airlines, a Milwaukee-based carrier catering to business travelers with low fares, recorded the heftiest passenger change fees as a percentage of passenger revenue.
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November passenger revenue per available seat mile fell by 2% and, as a result, will be flat compared with a year earlier, US Airways said.
Ticket sales picked up, as passenger revenue per available seat mile grew 5.2% during the quarter, and the average fare paid increased by more than 6%.
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Passenger yield (Passenger Revenue per Revenue Passenger Mile) for American has decreased slightly in recent years due to competition from low-cost airlines and poor domestic economic conditions.
Domestic Passenger yield (passenger revenue per revenue passenger mile) for UAL has decreased slightly in recent years due to competition from low-cost airlines and poor domestic economic conditions.
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Passenger revenue for the quarter was down 18% from last year on a 14% decrease in capacity, as United reduced flights on its heavily travelled Pacific and trans-Atlantic routes.
Delta, United, American, Southwest and Alaska were all over 7.5% of revenue passenger miles with awards. (A revenue passenger mile, or one passenger flying one mile, is the standard measure of traffic for airlines.) Alaska was best at a hefty 9% of revenue passenger miles on frequent-flier awards.
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An 8% increase in passenger numbers and revenue-per-passenger up 14% from last year are positive signs.
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The company expects passenger unit revenue (measured by revenue per available seat mile) to go up by 10.5% in Sept quarter as compared to the same period last year.
Over the same two decades, global air travel doubled growing to four trillion RPKs (revenue passenger kilometers).
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Passenger traffic for the carrier declined in the third quarter, indicated by a 0.6% y-o-y decline in Revenue Passenger Miles.
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System-wide traffic at American Airlines increased 1.3% in June over the same period a year ago, hitting 11.4 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs).
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He claims that 18% of their UK ticket revenue is now Air Passenger Duty charges.
Cargo, much of it carried in the belly of its passenger jets, brings in almost 20% of revenue, one of the highest shares in the industry.
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"US Airway (currently) loses money on that short segment, but if they can carry that passenger to another major hub or fly them internationally, they capture that incremental revenue, " says Vaughn Cordle, an airline analyst and co-founder of Ionosphere Capital.
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