JetBlue Airways Reports October Traffic
November 13 2017 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) reported its
preliminary traffic results for October 2017. Traffic in October
increased 3.7 percent from October 2016, on a capacity increase of
6.8 percent.
Load factor for October 2017 was 82.4 percent, a decrease of 2.4
points from October 2016. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor
was 97.8 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 79.5 percent.
JetBlue continues to expect fourth quarter revenue per available
seat mile (RASM) growth to range between (3.0) and 0.0 percent
compared to the fourth quarter of 2016, including a negative impact
from hurricanes of one to two percentage points.
JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS
October
2017 October
2016 % Change
Revenue passenger miles (000) 3,704,188 3,572,161 3.7 % Available
seat miles (000) 4,496,694 4,211,947 6.8 % Load factor 82.4 % 84.8
% (2.4) pts. Revenue passengers 3,166,920 3,034,721 4.4 %
Departures 28,760 26,954 6.7 % Average stage length (miles) 1,054
1,070 (1.5 )%
Y-T-D 2017 Y-T-D 2016 %
Change Revenue passenger miles (000) 39,416,452 38,006,284 3.7
% Available seat miles (000) 46,628,185 44,633,277 4.5 % Load
factor 84.5 % 85.2 % (0.7) pts. Revenue passengers 33,418,267
31,765,753 5.2 % Departures 294,740 280,279 5.2 % Average stage
length (miles) 1,071 1,096 (2.3 )%
(1) The U.S. Department of Transportation considers on-time
arrivals to be those domestic flights arriving within 14 minutes of
schedule.
JetBlue is New York's Hometown Airline®, and a leading carrier
in Boston, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, Los Angeles (Long Beach),
Orlando, and San Juan. JetBlue carries more than 38 million
customers a year to 101 cities in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin
America with an average of 1,000 daily flights. For more
information please visit jetblue.com.
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