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Last reported 2012Executive Airlines
Executive Airlines was a Puerto Rican airline based in San Juan. It joined the American Eagle system in 1986 and was bought by AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, in 1989. It flew ATR 72 turboprops around the Caribbean from the San Juan hub, returned its aircraft during the 2011 bankruptcy of AMR, and stopped flying at the end of March 2013. Its record here ends in 2012, after peaking at 2.8 million passengers in 2010.
- 1.2 millionpassengers, 2012
- 64seats per flight on average
- 187 milesaverage trip per passenger
- 46.1seat-miles per gallon (estimated)
How it changed
Executive Airlines carried 1.2 million passengers in 2012. Its busiest year was 2010, at 2.8 million.
Its average flight had 55 seats in 2000 and 64 in 2012, a sign of larger aircraft replacing smaller ones. The average passenger flew 218 miles per segment in 2000 and 187 in 2012, and 62% of its seat-miles were filled in 2012.
Fuel
In 2012 Executive Airlines burned 8 million gallons of jet fuel (an estimate, see below), which is 46.1 seat-miles per gallon and about 0.339 kg of CO2 per passenger-mile. Over 500 miles that's roughly 170 kg per passenger. Small regional aircraft burn more fuel per seat than the mainline jets, and a short hop spends a larger share of its fuel on take-off and climb, so these figures aren't graded against the airlines on the main list. Their flying and fuel are counted in the airlines whose names are on the tickets.
For some years Executive Airlines didn't file usable fuel figures with BTS. In 1 of them we priced its own flight hours at the fuel burn per hour that other airlines reported for the same aircraft types that year; in 1 we used the median seat-miles per gallon of the regionals that did report. They're marked with an asterisk in the table below. See the methodology.
Year-by-year figures
| Year | Passengers (millions) | Departures (thousands) | Seats per flight | Average trip (miles) | Load factor | Seat-miles (billions) | Seat-miles per gallon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1.2 | 30 | 64.1 | 187 | 62.3% | 0.37 | 46.1* |
| 2011 | 2.6 | 68 | 64.7 | 193 | 57.6% | 0.87 | 60.1 |
| 2010 | 2.8 | 75 | 64.6 | 189 | 56.2% | 0.93 | 36.9* |
| 2009 | 2.7 | 72 | 64.6 | 198 | 57.6% | 0.93 | 57.0 |
| 2008 | 2.5 | 64 | 64.7 | 210 | 59.3% | 0.87 | 58.8 |
| 2007 | 2.6 | 65 | 64.7 | 205 | 62.2% | 0.85 | 57.3 |
| 2006 | 2.6 | 63 | 64.7 | 205 | 63.5% | 0.84 | 56.9 |
| 2005 | 2.5 | 62 | 64.6 | 206 | 61.6% | 0.83 | 56.4 |
| 2004 | 2.7 | 70 | 62.3 | 205 | 59.7% | 0.91 | 56.9 |
| 2003 | 2.7 | 79 | 59.6 | 209 | 56.8% | 0.99 | 57.1 |
| 2002 | 2.0 | 61 | 54.1 | 217 | 59.3% | 0.72 | 53.1 |
| 2001 | 1.9 | 63 | 54.2 | 225 | 57.0% | 0.76 | 55.6 |
| 2000 | 2.0 | 65 | 54.7 | 218 | 56.8% | 0.76 | 57.4 |
Regionals with shared partners
These profiles have a partner airline in common with Executive Airlines in at least one data year. The partner split is estimated, and the airlines may have flown for the shared network at different times.
Nearby in fuel efficiency
Neighbours in the seat-miles per gallon table, using each airline's last data year. Fuel estimates are marked on the profiles, and these aren't same-year rankings.
Airline references
Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), T-100 traffic and Schedule T-2 fuel filings; US EPA jet-fuel CO2 factor. Methods and allocation limits.
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