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(RTTNews) - Thursday, Continental Airlines Inc. ( | | | ), an air carrier, reported October consolidated passenger load factor of 79.3%, an increase of 2.

0 points over the same month last year. On year-over-year basis, while mainline passenger load factor rose 2.1 points to 79.

5%, regional passenger load factor rose 0.6 points to 77.3%.

Domestic passenger load factor climbed 2.9 points to 83.1% and international passenger load factor increased 1.

4 points to 75.4%. Cargo revenue ton miles rose 1.

1% to 96.4 million in October from 95.4 million a year ago.

The company flew 7.3 billion consolidated revenue passenger miles or RPMs and 9.2 billion consolidated available seat miles or ASMs compared to 6.

6 billion consolidated revenue passenger miles and 8.57 billion consolidated available seat miles respectively in the month of October last year. Consolidated traffic increased 9.

5% and capacity improved 6.8% in October from a year ago. Mainline RPMs and ASMs in October were 6.

4 billion and 8.1 billion compared to 5.9 billion and 7.

6 billion respectively for the year ago period. This resulted in a mainline traffic and capacity increase of 9.5% and 6.

6% respectively on year-over-year basis. In the month, regional RPMs and ASMs were 854.6 million and 1.

1 billion compared to 779.9 million and 1.0 billion for the corresponding period last year.

Regional traffic increased 9.6% and capacity improved 8.6% in October from a year ago.

For the year-to-date period, consolidated RPMs rose 12.3% to 75.0 billion, with mainline and regional RPMs increasing 11.

7% and 17.3% respectively year-over-year. International and domestic RPMs improved 15.

5% and 8.6% respectively from a year ago. On year-over-year basis, consolidated ASMs increased 9.

9% to 92.8 billion, with 9.6% and 1.

8% improvement in mainline and regional ASMs. Cargo revenue ton miles for the year-to-date period were 890.6 million, up 6.

0% from 840.4 million for the year ago period. The company noted that the estimated increase in consolidated passenger revenue per available seat mile for October was 4.

5%-5.5%, with the estimated rise in mainline passenger revenue per available seat mile of 5.0%-6.

0% compared to October 2005. October 2006 sales at continental.com increased 26% over October 2005.

For the month, on-time performance was reported as 71.4%, down from 78.1% last year and completion factor came in at 99.

6% compared to 98.8% in the prior year.CAL closed Wednesday's regular session at $36.

06, down 2.22% on a volume of 3,758,700 shares.

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