CONTINENTAL Airlines reported that its revenue from cargo slipped 3.9 per cent in April to 86.25 million cargo revenue ton miles from 89.73 million in the same month last year.
But the airline pointed out that it experience its strongest growth on the transatlantic, which increased traffic 12.6 per cent in April to 1.59 billion revenue passenger miles compared to same month in 2006.
Continental said overall traffic during the reporting month climbed 4.8 per cent due mainly to the increasing growth in trans-Atlantic travel.
The airline said its traffic totalled 7.85 billion revenue passenger miles during the month, up from 7.49 billion in the same period a year earlier.
International traffic climbed 6.3 per cent to 3.18 billion revenue passenger miles. Capacity rose 5 per cent to 9.54 billion available seat miles from 9.09 billion, while the load factor was 82.3 per cent, down from 82.5 per cent in April 2006.
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