The number of passengers flown by SkyWest Inc. fell 9.5 percent in October as some of its major airline partners continued to trim their domestic flying schedules.
SkyWest flew 2.72 million passengers last month. A year earlier, the company carried 3.01 million passengers, SkyWest said Wednesday.
St. George-based SkyWest is the parent company of SkyWest Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines. SkyWest Airlines flies as Delta Connect for Delta Air Lines and as Midwest Connect for Midwest Airlines. ASA flies as Delta Connect for Delta.
Revenue passenger miles - an industry unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile - fell to 1.37 billion last month, down from 1.56 billion in the same month of last year.
Capacity dropped to 1.72 billion available seat miles in October from 2.02 billion last year. Load factor - a measure of how full airplanes are - increased to 79.6 percent from 77.6 percent.
Block hours - the time between a plane leaving a departure gate and arriving at a destination gate - slipped to 106,148 hours from 124,633 a year earlier.
- Paul Beebe
Winter sports: Snowbird to host Subaru Freeskiing tour in March
Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort will play host March 10-15 to a stop on the 10-year-old Subaru Freeskiing World Tour.
The Little Cottonwood Canyon resort will be the fourth stop on the six-resort tour, which culminates in the world championships in Alyeska, Alaska, in mid-April. Other circuit stops are in Telluride and Crested Butte, Colo., Zermatt, Switzerland, and Kirkwood, Calif.
Produced by Mountain Sports International, the tour offers purses of up to $20,000 per circuit stop for freeskiers who race down steep stretches of mountain, often hurtling off giant jumps. Registration for the Snowbird stop began Thursday at www.free- skiingworldtour.com.
- Mike Gorrell
Utah Farm Bureau convention to focus on energy
The Utah Farm Bureau Federation's convention Nov. 20-21 will focus on the outlook for energy.
Among speakers will be Wells Fargo Bank economist Kelly Matthews, who will discuss challenges facing Utah agriculture.
The convention will be at the Davis Conference Center in Layton. To register, contact Brenda Barnes at 801-233-3040.
- Dawn House
