4 June 2010

Norwegian released that traffic in May 2010 increased by 37% compared to the same period last year, capacity increased by 38% and the load factor for the month was 77%, which is equivalent to last year.

BA reported that May 2010 traffic fell by 11.5%. Capacity was down 4.7% on May 2009; the strikes accounted for some 6% reduction in capacity. This resulted in a passenger load factor decrease of 5.4 points versus last year, to 69.7%.

Republic Airways Holdings reported preliminary passenger traffic results for May 2010. Republic reported that traffic increased 116% from the same month last year, while capacity increased 100%. Consolidated load factor was 82% versus 76% in May 2009.

Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for May 2010. System traffic in May 2010 increased 2.7% compared to May 2009 on a 0.6% increase in capacity. Load factor increased 1.6 points to 83.9%.

For the month of May, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 82.0% on a consolidated basis with Jazz (from which Air Canada purchases regional capacity), versus 79.5% in May 2009, an increase of 2.5 percentage points. System traffic increased 9.7% on a system wide capacity increase of 6.4%.

American Airlines reported a May load factor of 82.8%, an increase of 3.6 points versus the same period last year. Traffic increased 4.1% and capacity decreased 0.4% year over year.