JetBlue Airways October Traffic Up 7.1% - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) said Tuesday that its traffic for October climbed 7.1 percent year-over-year, on a capacity increase of 10.9 percent.

Traffic in October, expressed as revenue passenger miles, or RPM, rose to 2.72 billion RPMs from 2.54 billion RPMs a year ago, the company said.

Capacity, also known as available seat miles, or ASM, increased to 3.34 billion ASMs in October from 3 billion ASMs in the prior year.

Meanwhile, load factor in October was lower by 2.9 points at 81.4 percent.

Revenue passengers in October were up 6.2 percent at 2.33 million.