JetBlue Sees Increase in Capacity, Load Factor for October
JetBlue Airways announced operational results for October 2016. The carrier said that its total traffic, capacity, and load factor were all up for the month.
The New York-based airline’s passenger traffic for the month was 3.572 billion revenue passenger miles, or RPMs, a year-over-year increase of 6.5% from 3.355 billion RPMs in the same period last year.
The carrier’s capacity also increased, up 5.5% to 4.212 billion available seat miles, or ASMs, from 3.994 billion ASMs in October 2015.
JetBlue’s passenger load factor for the month was 84.8%, a 0.8 percentage point increase from 84% last October.
The airline said that Hurricane Matthew had a negative impact on its unit revenue for the month by approximately two percentage points. Its preliminary completion factor was 97.7% and its on-time performance was 77%.
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