WestJet announced October 2013 traffic results with a load factor of 79.2%, down 2.0 points compared to October 2012. Traffic increased 5.4% year over year, and capacity grew 8.1% over the same period.
Delta reported that October system traffic increased 1.4% when compared to the previous year, while system capacity increased 3.6%. System load factor for October was slightly down by 1.7 pts to 82.9%, compared to October 2012.
Virgin America’s September 2013 traffic decreased 8.4% on a 7.3% decrease in capacity, when compared to the same period in 2012. Load factor was 76.3%, a 0.9 point decrease from the same month a year earlier.
United Airlines reported September 2013 operational results. UAL’s September 2013 consolidated traffic increased 1.0% and consolidated capacity increased 0.2% versus September 2012. UAL’s September 2013 consolidated load factor increased 0.6 points compared to September 2012 and was 82.7%.
In September, Finnair traffic rose by 7.4% and the overall capacity grew 4.0% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor improved by 2.6 points and was 81.1%.
SAS Group reported that capacity for the month of September was up by 5.2%, while traffic increased 1.6% year over year. The load factor for September decreased 2.6 points, to 73.9%.
Southwest Airlines reported that traffic in September 2013 grew 1.3% compared to the same period in September 2012, while capacity increased 1.2%. The September 2013 load factor was 77.1% compared to 77.0% in September 2012.
Ryanair released its passenger and load factor statistics for September 2013; traffic for the month increased 3% when compared to the previous year, while the laod factor increased 1.0 point to 85%.
For the month of September, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 83.2% versus 84.9% in September 2012. System traffic for September increased 1.9% on a system-wide capacity increase of 3.9%.
IAG traffic for September increased by 8.8% versus September 2012, Group capacity rose by 8.3% when compared to the same period in 2012. Group laod factor was up 0.8 points to 85.4%.
