Allegiant Travel October Passenger Traffic, Capacity Climb

(RTTNews) - Allegiant Travel Co. (ALGT), a leisure travel company, reported late Tuesday that its passenger traffic for the month of October climbed 22.9 percent for the total system, including scheduled service and fixed fee contract, to 560.582 million revenue passenger miles from 456.215 million revenue passenger miles last year.

Total passengers were 607,468, up 25.9 percent from 482,562 a year ago.

Load factor, meanwhile, edged down 0.1 percentage points to 85.8 percent from 85.9 percent a year ago.

Allegiant Travel shares closed Tuesday's regular trading at $137.31, up $2.72 or 2.02 percent.