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| Photo Business Wire |
The US budget carrier and New York hometown airline, JetBlue Airways has reported its preliminary traffic results for January 2019 this week demonstrating an increase in traffic of almost 9%.
The carriers load factor for January 2019 was 80.4%, a decrease of 1.5 points from January 2018 results. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor for January 2019 was 96.0% and its on-time performance was 69.4%. The airline continues to expect first first-quarter per available seat mile (RASM) to range between (2.0) and 1.0 percent.
JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS
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| January 2019 | January 2018 | % Change | |||||||||||
| Revenue passenger miles (000) | 4,099,057 | 3,798,396 | 7.9 | % | |||||||||
| Available seat miles (000) | 5,097,202 | 4,639,118 | 9.9 | % | |||||||||
| Load factor | 80.4 | % | 81.9 | % | -1.5 pts. | ||||||||
| Revenue passengers | 3,258,384 | 3,158,340 | 3.2 | % | |||||||||
| Departures | 29,593 | 28,596 | 3.5 | % | |||||||||
| Average stage length (miles) | 1,146 | 1,092 | 4.9 | % | |||||||||
