US Airways 2011 Annual Report Download - page 9

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Airline Operations
We operate the fifth largest airline in the United States as measured by domestic revenue passenger miles ("RPMs") and available seat miles ("ASMs").
We have hubs in Charlotte, Philadelphia and Phoenix and a focus city in Washington, D.C. at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ("Washington
National"). We offer scheduled passenger service on more than 3,100 flights daily to more than 200 communities in the United States, Canada, Mexico,
Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. We also have an established East Coast route network, including the US Airways
Shuttle service. We had approximately 53 million passengers boarding our mainline flights in 2011. During 2011, our mainline operation provided regularly
scheduled service or seasonal service at 133 airports while the US Airways Express network served 156 airports in the United States, Canada and Mexico,
including 78 airports also served by our mainline operation. US Airways Express air carriers had approximately 28 million passengers boarding their planes in
2011. As of December 31, 2011, we operated 340 mainline jets and were supported by our regional airline subsidiaries and affiliates operating as US Airways
Express under capacity purchase agreements, which operated 233 regional jets and 50 turboprops. Our prorate carriers operated seven turboprops and seven
regional jets at December 31, 2011.
In May 2011, US Airways Group and US Airways entered into an Amended and Restated Mutual Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement (the "Mutual
APA") with Delta Air Lines, Inc. ("Delta"). The Mutual APA amended and restated the Mutual Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement dated August 11, 2009 by
and among the parties. Pursuant to the Mutual APA, Delta agreed to acquire 132 slot pairs at LaGuardia from US Airways and US Airways agreed to acquire
from Delta 42 slot pairs at Washington National and the rights to operate additional daily service to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2015, and Delta agreed to pay US
Airways $66.5 million in cash. One slot equals one take-off or landing, and each pair of slots equals one round-trip flight. The Mutual APA was structured as
two simultaneous asset sales.
On December 13, 2011, the transaction contemplated by the Mutual APA closed and ownership of the respective slots was transferred between the
airlines. Our first new flights from Washington National start March 25, 2012 with service to 11 new cities and additional service in other existing
communities. After all of the changes resulting from our agreement with Delta are in place, nearly 99 percent of our capacity will touch our hubs in Phoenix,
Philadelphia and Charlotte, our focus city at Washington National or our hourly shuttle service between Boston, LaGuardia and Washington National.
Refer to the "Customer Service" section in Part I for discussion of US Airways' operating performance as reported to the U.S. Department of
Transportation ("DOT").
For information regarding US Airways Group's and US Airways' operating segments and operating revenue in principal geographic areas, see Note 12
to their respective consolidated financial statements included in Items 8A and 8B of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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