TABLE - U.S. airlines March traffic data

NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - The following table shows March
mainline operational data for the 10 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
American 11.60 -2.8 13.81 -4.6 83.9 +1.5 pts
Delta* 10.66 +2.3 12.74 +1.5 83.6 +0.6 pts
United 10.04 -2.7 12.14 +0.0 82.7 -2.3 pts
Continental 7.41 +4.8 8.97 +5.4 82.6 -0.5 pts
Southwest 6.68 +9.8 8.74 +5.3 76.5 +3.2 pts
Northwest 6.56 -0.4 7.45 -2.1 88.0 +1.4 pts
US Airways 5.39 -0.2 6.38 -2.7 84.5 +2.1 pts
JetBlue 2.45 +8.4 3.00 +13.4 81.8 -3.7 pts
Alaska** 1.70 +10.7 2.10 +5.2 80.8 +4.0 pts
AirTran 1.71 +15.8 2.15 +12.9 79.6 +1.9 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.