JetBlue Airways Reports July Traffic

By: JetBlue Airways Corporation via Business Wire News Releases

August 10, 2016 at 08:00 AM EDT

JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU) reported its preliminary traffic results for July 2016. Traffic increased 6.6 percent from July 2015, on a capacity increase of 5.5 percent.

Load factor for July 2016 was 87.8 percent, an increase of 0.8 points from July 2015. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor was 98.0 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 67.8 percent. JetBlue’s preliminary revenue per available seat mile for the month of July decreased approximately two and a half percent year over year.


JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS

	July 2016	July 2015	% Change
Revenue passenger miles (000)	4,260,960	3,998,899	6.6%
Available seat miles (000)	4,850,393	4,595,540	5.5%
Load factor	87.8%	87.0%	0.8 pts.
Revenue passengers	3,529,151	3,319,630	6.3%
Departures	30,065	29,120	3.2%
Average stage length (miles)	1,109	1,107	0.2%

	Y-T-D 2016	Y-T-D 2015	% Change
Revenue passenger miles (000)	26,789,697	24,092,238	11.2%
Available seat miles (000)	31,476,054	28,251,669	11.4%
Load factor	85.1%	85.3%	-0.2 pts.
Revenue passengers	22,307,606	20,272,194	10.0%
Departures	196,589	182,501	7.7%
Average stage length (miles)	1,104	1,093	1.0%

(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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