U.S. Airways Group Inc. (NYSE:LCC) reported an 1.8 percent year-over-year enlarge in traffic preceding month and passenger traffic was up close to 1 percent. Almost 4.46 million passengers were on US Airways flights at some stage in May, a 0.9 percent enlarges compared to 4.42 million in May 2009, the airline said Thursday.

The airline, one of six carriers at Piedmont Triad global Airport, flew 5.2 billion income passenger miles last month, up 1.8 percent from May 2009. Revenue passenger miles are a key airline industry measure of a carrier’s traffic.

The carrier’s passenger-load factor, or percentage of filled spaces, was a record 82.9 percent, the airline said.

Capacity was up 1.7 percent year-over-year to 6.3 billion obtainable seat miles.

Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways (NYSE:LCC) operate 3,000 flights per daytime to 190 destinations in the Americas and Europe.

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