JetBlue Airways Reports September Traffic

JetBlue Airways Corporation (Nasdaq: JBLU) reported its preliminary traffic results for September 2010. Traffic in September increased 14.6 percent from September 2009, on a capacity increase of 10.4 percent.

Load factor for September 2010 was 80.6 percent, an increase of 3.0 points from September 2009. JetBlue's preliminary completion factor was 98.8 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 78.7 percent. JetBlue's preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile for the month of September increased ten percent year over year.

JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS




September 2010


September 2009


% Change


Revenue passenger miles (000)


2,200,608


1,919,917


14.6%


Available seat miles (000)


2,731,063


2,474,492


10.4%


Load factor


80.6%


77.6%


3.0 pts.


Revenue passengers


1,873,531


1,624,259


15.3%


Departures


17,750


16,321


8.8%


Average stage length


1,101


1,083


1.7%









Y-T-D 2010


Y-T-D 2009


% Change


Revenue passenger miles (000)


21,295,419


19,612,405


8.6%


Available seat miles (000)


26,213,559


24,570,347


6.7%


Load factor


81.2%


79.8%


1.4 pts.


Revenue passengers


18,214,702


16,993,103


7.2%


Departures


169,504


163,319


3.8%


Average stage length


1,102


1,071


2.9%


(1) The U.S. Department of Transportation considers on-time arrivals to be those domestic flights arriving within 14 minutes of schedule.




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