American Airlines Reports August Traffic

American Airlines Reports August Traffic

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines, the world's largest airline, reported an August load factor of 81.5 percent -- an increase of 3.1 points compared to the same period last year. Traffic grew by 3.8 percent year over year, while capacity declined slightly.

International traffic increased 7.9 percent relative to last year on 3.4 percent more capacity. Domestic traffic increased 1.8 percent year over year, with a capacity decline of 1.9 percent.

American boarded 8.8 million passengers in August.

Detailed traffic and capacity data are on the following pages:

AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER DIVISION
COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY
EXCLUDES CHARTER SERVICES
AUGUST

2005 2004 CHANGE
REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000)
SYSTEM 12,653,814 12,189,121 3.8 %
D.O.T. DOMESTIC 8,285,372 8,139,755 1.8
INTERNATIONAL 4,368,442 4,049,367 7.9
ATLANTIC 1,904,315 1,783,053 6.8
LATIN AMERICA 1,968,793 1,889,031 4.2
PACIFIC 495,334 377,283 31.3

AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000)
SYSTEM 15,509,445 15,531,444 (0.1)%
D.O.T. DOMESTIC 10,123,419 10,323,790 (1.9)
INTERNATIONAL 5,386,026 5,207,654 3.4
ATLANTIC 2,213,668 2,107,683 5.0
LATIN AMERICA 2,554,896 2,626,276 (2.7)
PACIFIC 617,462 473,696 30.3

LOAD FACTOR
SYSTEM 81.5 % 78.4 % 3.1 Pts
D.O.T. DOMESTIC 81.8 78.8 3.0
INTERNATIONAL 81.1 77.7 3.4
ATLANTIC 86.0 84.5 1.5
LATIN AMERICA 77.0 71.9 5.1
PACIFIC 80.2 79.6 0.6

PASSENGERS BOARDED 8,778,524 8,331,312 5.4 %

SYSTEM CARGO TON MILES (000) 174,675 174,305 0.2 %

AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGER DIVISION
COMPARATIVE PRELIMINARY TRAFFIC SUMMARY
EXCLUDES CHARTER SERVICES
YEAR-TO-DATE AUGUST

2005 2004 CHANGE
REVENUE PASSENGER MILES (000)
SYSTEM 94,297,049 88,321,994 6.8 %
D.O.T. DOMESTIC 62,648,937 60,328,048 3.8
INTERNATIONAL 31,648,111 27,993,945 13.1
ATLANTIC 13,187,268 12,137,116 8.7
LATIN AMERICA 14,888,530 13,052,290 14.1
PACIFIC 3,572,313 2,804,540 27.4

AVAILABLE SEAT MILES (000)
SYSTEM 119,254,281 117,559,919 1.4 %
D.O.T. DOMESTIC 78,224,324 79,988,537 (2.2)
INTERNATIONAL 41,029,957 37,571,381 9.2
ATLANTIC 15,869,668 14,937,229 6.2
LATIN AMERICA 20,649,310 19,127,791 8.0
PACIFIC 4,510,979 3,506,361 28.7

LOAD FACTOR
SYSTEM 79.0 % 75.1 % 3.9 Pts
D.O.T. DOMESTIC 80.0 75.4 4.6
INTERNATIONAL 77.1 74.5 2.6
ATLANTIC 83.0 81.2 1.8
LATIN AMERICA 72.1 68.2 3.9
PACIFIC 79.1 79.9 (0.8)

PASSENGERS BOARDED 66,826,579 62,284,570 7.3 %

SYSTEM CARGO TON MILES (000) 1,450,965 1,443,772 0.5 %

Current AMR Corp. (NYSE:AMR) releases can be accessed on the Internet.
The address is http://www.aa.com/

Source: American Airlines

CONTACT: Tim Smith, Corporate Communications of American Airlines,
+1-817-967-1577, or corp.comm@aa.com

Web site: http://www.aa.com/

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