Northwest reports improved August traffic

Northwest Airlines reported hitting 7.68 billion revenue passenger miles (RPM) in August, an increase of 4.6 percent from the 7.35 billion RPM in the previous year. The available seat miles (ASM) also showed an increase of 3.2 percent from 9.25 billion ASM in August 1999 to 9.54 billion ASM in 2000.

The airlines’ scheduled service in the Pacific region showed an improvement of 2.6 percent in ASM for the month of August and 5.3-percent increase in Northwest’s year to date performance.

"The increase in ASM means that we have added more flights in and out of the Pacific region," said Laurie Lofgren, general manager for the Philippines, Guam and Micronesia. "Our goal is to be able to provide our passengers in the Pacific more convenient connections to the US and Canada," she added.

Also, Northwest Airlines’ cargo ton miles (CTM) systemwide rose 6.1 percent from 1999’s 195.0 million CTM to 206.8 million CTM in August 2000.

Northwest Airlines is the world’s fourth largest airline. From Manila, Northwest flies 18 times weekly to the US and Canada via Osaka, Tokyo and Nagoya with an all B747-400 aircraft complement. Together with its travel partners, Northwest reaches over 750 cities all around the globe.

Northwest and partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines received Air Transport World magazine’s prestigious "1997 Airline of the Year" award and based on statistics compiled by the US Department of Transportation, Northwest was the most on-time US airline among the seven largest network carriers for the period of 1990-1999.

Northwest’s WorldPerks frequent flyer program is the highest rated US-based program reviewed by InsideFlyer magazine, the leading authority on airline free travel programs, and in 1999 was named the most preferred frequent flyer program by the readers of Time magazine in Asia. In 1999, Northwest’s nwa.com was chosen as best airline web site by zdNews and Business 2.0 and was named one of the top 500 sites by Internet World Magazine.