The Wall Street Journal-20080114-Midwest Air Group Inc-- December Traffic Rose- But Load Factor Slid

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Midwest Air Group Inc.: December Traffic Rose, But Load Factor Slid

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Midwest Air Group Inc. December traffic rose 4.3% to 350.1 million revenue passenger miles. A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile. The Milwaukee airline holding company said load factor, or percentage of seats filled, fell to 67.7% from 71.2% a year earlier. Midwest Air's total capacity was up 9.6% to 521.3 million available seat miles from a year earlier.