Virgin America reported its preliminary operational results for July 2014. The airline’s traffic increased 3.5% on capacity that was 0.5% higher than in the same month in 2013. Load factor was 85%, up 2.4 points from July 2013.
United Airlines reported July 2014 operational results. UAL’s July 2014 consolidated traffic increased 1.0% and consolidated capacity increased 1.6% versus July 2013. UAL’s July 2014 consolidated load factor decreased 0.5 points to 86.7% compared to July 2013.
Southwest Airlines released that traffic in July 2014 increased 6.6% compared to July 2013, while capacity increased 2.6%. The July 2014 load factor was 86.7%, compared to 83.5% in July 2013.
Air Canada reported system load factor of 86.7%, versus 85.6% in July 2013, an increase of 1.1 points on a system-wide capacity increase of 11.4%. On this additional capacity, system wide traffic for July increased 12.7%.
WestJet announced July 2014 traffic results with a load factor of 83.3%, an increase of 0.2 points year over year. Traffic increased 6.7% year over year and capacity grew 6.6% over the same period.
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Alaska Air Group reported July and year-to-date operational results for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Alaska reported a 6.3% increase in traffic on a 6.1% increase in capacity compared to July 2013. This resulted in a 0.1 point increase in load factor to 89.0%. Horizon reported a 3.5% increase in July traffic on
Delta reported that system traffic for the month of July increased 2.8% compared to the same period in 2013, while capacity increased 2.2% year over year. The load factor for July was up 0.5 points to 87.5%.
Republic Airways reported June traffic increase of 16% over the same period in 2013, on a 13% increase in capacity. Load factor increased 2.0 points to 82.5% from the same period in 2013.
Virgin America reported its preliminary operational results for June 2014. The airline’s traffic increased 0.5% on capacity that was 0.9% lower than in the same month in 2013. Load factor was 86.1%, up 1.2 points from June 2013.
