Traffic

Ryanair reported September traffic increased 5% compared to the previous year, while the load factor for the month increased 5.0 points to 90%.

WestJet reported September 2014 traffic results with a load factor of 75.9%. Traffic increased 6.0% year over year, and capacity grew 6.8% over the same period.

For the month of September, Air Canada reported a system load factor of 84.7%, versus 83.2% in September 2013, representing an increase of 1.5 points on a system-wide capacity increase of 7.3%. On this additional capacity, system wide traffic for September increased 9.2%.

Delta Air Lines reported financial and operating performance for September 2014. Traffic in September increased 5.4% compared to the same period in 2013, while capacity increased 4.9%. The load factor for September increased slightly by 0.4 points to 83.7%.

Alaska reported an 8.3% increase in traffic on a 9.2% increase in capacity compared to September 2013. This resulted in a 0.7 point decrease in load factor to 82.1%. Horizon reported a 5.1% increase in September traffic on a 6.8% increase in capacity compared to September 2013. This resulted in a 1.3 point decrease in

American Airlines Group’s traffic for the month was flat versus August 2013. Total capacity was up 1.1% versus August 2013. Total passenger load factor was 84.6% for the month of August, down 0.9 points versus August 2013.

United Airlines reported August 2014 operational results. UAL’s August 2014 consolidated traffic increased 0.1% and consolidated capacity increased 0.2% versus August 2013. UAL’s August 2014 consolidated load factor decreased 0.1 points to 87.3% compared to August 2013.

Virgin America reported that traffic increased 2.9% in August, on capacity that was 1.2% lower than in the same month in 2013. Load factor was 85.6%, up 3.4 points from August 2013.

SAS reported August total traffic increase of 6.3%, when compared to the previous year, while capacity increased 3.2%. The load factor for August was up 2.4 points to 82.9%.

In August, Finnair’s overall capacity increased by 0.2% and traffic decreased by 0.3% year‐on‐year. Passenger load factor was 84.8%, down 0.4 points, when compared to August 2013.