Article: Northwest Airlines reports July 1986 revenue passenger miles.

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Airlines Inc., subsidiary of NWA Inc. (NYSE:NWA), today reported that it flew 2,534,654,000 revenue passenger miles in July 1986, the highest single monthly revenue-passenger-mile mark in the airline's 59-year history. To set this new record, passenger traffic increased 7.6 percent from the year-earlier total of 2,356,254,000 passenger miles.

"We were encouraged by the passenger traffic increases in July. Good growth was experienced in both Pacific and Domestic, as these areas led the way in improvement of the load factor and setting the record revenue-passenger-mile mark," according to Steven G. ...

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