Airlines & Routes

Ryanair released that traffic grew 12% in December 2009, while the load factor was up 2.0 pts to 81% compared to the same period in 2008.

Republic Airways reported preliminary passenger traffic results for December 2009. The Company reported that traffic increased 112.4% from the same month last year, while cpacity increased 99.5%. Load factor was 75.3% versus 70.7% in December 2008.

JetBlue Airways reported that its traffic in December increased 7.5% from December 2008, on a capacity increase of 6.6%. Load factor for December 2009 was 80.0%, an increase of 0.6 points from December 2008.

Southwest Airlines announced that traffic in December 2009 increased 3.0%, while capacity decreased 5.8%. The load factor for the month was 76.2% compared to 69.7% for the same period last year.

Delta Air Lines reported traffic results for December 2009. System traffic in December 2009, including both Delta and Northwest operations, decreased 7.5% compared to December 2008 on an 8.0% decrease in capacity. Load factor increased 0.4 points to 81.2%.

Alaska Air Group reported December operational results for its subsidiaries, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Alaska reported an increase in load factor to 83.6% in December 2009, compared to 80.7% in December 2008, on a 5.0% increase in capacity compared to the prior-year period. Traffic increased 8.7% compared to December 2008. Horizon reported an increase

US Airways Group announced December 2009 traffic results. Mainline traffic was down 3.6% versus December 2008 while capacity was down 2.4% versus December 2008. Passenger load factor for the month was 79.3%, down 1.0 point versus December 2008.

For December 2009 AirTran Airways traffic increased 5.3% on an 8.2% rise in capacity. The load factor dropped 2.1 pts to 77.7%.

WestJet announced December traffic results with a record load factor of 81.7%. Traffic increased 8.1% year over year, and capacity grew 7.0% over the same period.

United Airlines reported its preliminary consolidated traffic results for December 2009. The company reported a December consolidated passenger load factor of 81.9%. Traffic figures were flat in December on a consolidated capacity decrease of 3.1% compared with the same period in 2008.