Traffic

For the month of December 2016, Copa Holdings’ system-wide passenger traffic increased 9.0% year over year, while capacity increased 2.2%. As a result, system load factor for December 2016 was 81%, 5.1 points increase when compared to December 2015.

UAL’s December 2016 consolidated traffic increased 2.6% and consolidated capacity increased 2.6% versus December 2015. UAL’s December 2016 consolidated load factor increased 0.1 points to 83.1% compared to December 2015.

WestJet announced December 2016 traffic results with a load factor of 80.8%, an increase of 1.6 points year over year. Traffic increased 9.1% year over year and capacity grew 7.1% over the same period.

Alaska Air Group reported December and full-year operational results on a combined basis, for its subsidiaries Alaska Airlines and Virgin America and for its regional flying operated by subsidiary Horizon Air Industries and third-party regional carriers, SkyWest Airlines and PenAir (Regional). On a combined basis, Air Group reported a 5.6% increase in traffic on a

International Airlines Group traffic in December increased by 3.9% versus December 2015, while Group capacity rose by 3.1% compared to the previous year. Group load factor was 79.2%, up 0.6 points compared to December 2015.

Ryanair released December traffic statistics, reporting a 20% increase in traffic compared to December 2015. The load factor for the month was up 3.0 points, to 94%.

Norwegian reported December capacity growth of 29% compared to December 2015, while traffic was up 31%. The load factor was 84.6%, an increase of 1.3 points compared to the same period on 2015.

Delta reported that December 2016 system traffic increased 2.6%, while capacity for the month was up 1.5% when compared to the same period in 2015. System load factor was up 0.9 points to 85.3% compared to December the previous year.

JetBlue Airways Corporation reported its preliminary traffic results for November 2016. Traffic in November increased 7.1% from November 2015, on a capacity increase of 5.2%. Load factor for November 2016 was 85.4%, an increase of 1.5 points from November 2015.

WestJet reported November 2016 traffic results with a load factor of 80.0% an increase of 1.4 points year over year. Traffic increased 14.3% year over year, while capacity grew 12.4% over the same period.