Impressive U.S. Regional Carriers Stats

The U.S. regional airline market continues to be strong.  American Eagle, SkyWest Airlines (operating as Delta Connection and United Express carrier) and ExpressJet (operating as Continental Express) were ranked as the three largest regional carriers, in terms of passenger enplanments during 2005. The top 20 regional airlines transported 97.1% of the industry’s pasengers and flew 98.7% of the industry’s revenue passenger miles.

For the first six months of 2005, U.S. regional airlines carried 73.1 million passengers, flew 31.53 billion revenue passenger miles, and completed 2.6 million departures.