TABLE - U.S. airlines October traffic data
NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The following table lists October mainline operational data for the nine largest U.S. airlines by passenger traffic, compared with the same month a year earlier:
----Traffic---- ---Capacity--- --Load factor--
RPMs pct chg ASMs pct chg pct Change Delta* 15.30 -6.5 18.18 -8.3 84.2 +1.6 pts American 10.24 -2.6 12.33 -7.3 83.1 +4.0 pts United 8.43 -3.8 10.06 -6.8 83.8 +2.5 pts Continental 6.47 +1.9 7.80 -2.4 83.0 +3.5 pts Southwest 6.33 +1.9 7.99 -9.4 79.2 +8.8 pts US Airways 4.67 -0.8 5.65 -1.6 82.6 +0.7 pts JetBlue 2.02 +7.2 2.50 +7.1 80.8 +0.1 pts Alaska** 1.46 +3.0 1.89 -1.6 77.0 +3.4 pts AirTran 1.51 +5.2 1.90 +7.0 79.2 -1.3 pts
NOTES: Traffic is measured in billions of revenue passenger miles, the distance traveled by paying passengers.
Capacity is measured in billions of available seat miles, reflecting the number of seats available for sale and the length of the flights.
Load factor is the percentage of seats occupied by paying passengers and change is in percentage points.
*Figures for Delta include data for regional affiliates.
**Alaska Airlines doesn't include unit Horizon Air.
All data are from the airlines.
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