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Jan 4, 2011

Frontier Airlines Reports December 2010 Traffic



Reports Tenth Consecutive Record Load Factor

INDIANAPOLIS, January 04, 2011 - Frontier Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings (NASDAQ: RJET), today reported preliminary traffic results for December 2010. Frontier’s traffic increased 2% to 976 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs) while capacity was slightly down to 1.22 billion available seat miles (ASMs). Frontier Airlines served 1.1 million passengers in December, holding steady from December 2009. Frontier achieved its tenth consecutive record monthly load factor this month. December’s load factor was 80% compared to 77% in the same month last year.

December

                               
          2010         2009          
          Total         Total         Change
RPMs (000s)         976,349         954,696         2%
ASMs (000s)         1,222,567         1,234,341         -1%
Block Hrs         29,854         32,871         -9%
LF %         80%         77%         3 pp
Passengers         1,131,194         1,125,082         1%
                               

Quarter to Date

                               
          2010         2009          
          Total         Total         Change
RPMs (000s)         2,938,208         2,838,744         4%
ASMs (000s)         3,617,389         3,612,176         0%
Block Hrs         88,167         95,513         -8%
LF %         81%         79%         4 pp
Passengers         3,436,759         3,416,605         1%
                               

Frontier Airlines is a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, Inc., an airline holding company that also owns Chautauqua Airlines, Lynx Aviation, Republic Airlines and Shuttle America. Currently in its 17th year of operations, Frontier employs more than 5,500 aviation professionals and operates more than 550 daily flights from its hubs at Denver International Airport and Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport. Frontier offers routes to more than 70 destinations in the United States, Mexico and Costa Rica.

For more in-depth information on Frontier Airlines and to book tickets, please visit our website at FrontierAirlines.com.

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