Delta jets lined up at New York Kennedy last spring. (Terry Maxon/DMN)
Traffic on 14 U.S. airlines increased 3.1 percent in October compared to a year earlier, outrunning a 2.3 percent climb in capacity.
Nine of the 14 showed higher load factors. The group, which comprises about all the carriers of any size, filled 82.9 percent of the seats flown, up 0.6 percentage points from October 2013.
Traffic: Thousands of revenue passenger miles
Capacity: Thousands of revenue passenger miles
Load factor: Percentage of seats filled with passengers
| Traffic | 2014 | 2013 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 2,208,000 | 2,019,000 | 9.4% |
| Allegiant | 546,761 | 443,418 | 23.3% |
| American | 15,931,046 | 16,005,407 | -0.5% |
| Delta | 15,159,347 | 14,331,092 | 5.8% |
| Great Lakes | 3,964 | 11,177 | -64.5% |
| Hawaiian | 1,183,654 | 1,167,578 | 1.4% |
| Horizon | 187,000 | 178,000 | 5.1% |
| JetBlue | 2,999,888 | 2,717,770 | 10.4% |
| Republic | 1,017,614 | 925,091 | 10.0% |
| SkyWest | 2,703,916 | 2,767,363 | -2.3% |
| Southwest | 8,989,543 | 8,610,484 | 4.4% |
| Spirit | 1,190,112 | 1,013,549 | 17.4% |
| United | 14,746,858 | 14,663,136 | 0.6% |
| Virgin America | 810,309 | 819,138 | -1.1% |
| Total | 67,678,012 | 65,672,203 | 3.1% |
| Capacity | 2014 | 2013 | Change |
| Alaska | 2,646,000 | 2,399,000 | 10.3% |
| Allegiant | 622,235 | 505,386 | 23.1% |
| American | 19,322,418 | 19,256,138 | 0.3% |
| Delta | 17,966,490 | 17,132,781 | 4.9% |
| Great Lakes | 8,823 | 26,959 | -67.3% |
| Hawaiian | 1,397,170 | 1,408,750 | -0.8% |
| Horizon | 238,000 | 225,000 | 5.8% |
| JetBlue | 3,593,558 | 3,338,233 | 7.6% |
| Republic | 1,277,364 | 1,208,688 | 5.7% |
| SkyWest | 3,291,772 | 3,399,040 | -3.2% |
| Southwest | 10,820,718 | 10,782,383 | 0.4% |
| Spirit | 1,384,459 | 1,165,454 | 18.8% |
| United | 18,082,646 | 17,918,322 | 0.9% |
| Virgin America | 988,118 | 1,015,383 | -2.7% |
| Total | 81,639,771 | 79,781,517 | 2.3% |
| Load factors | 2014 | 2013 | Change |
| Alaska | 83.4% | 84.2% | -0.7 |
| Allegiant | 87.9% | 87.7% | 0.1 |
| American | 82.4% | 83.1% | -0.7 |
| Delta | 84.4% | 83.6% | 0.7 |
| Great Lakes | 44.9% | 41.5% | 3.5 |
| Hawaiian | 84.7% | 82.9% | 1.8 |
| Horizon | 78.6% | 79.1% | -0.5 |
| JetBlue | 83.5% | 81.4% | 2.1 |
| Republic | 79.7% | 76.5% | 3.1 |
| SkyWest | 82.1% | 81.4% | 0.7 |
| Southwest | 83.1% | 79.9% | 3.2 |
| Spirit | 86.0% | 87.0% | -1.0 |
| United | 81.6% | 81.8% | -0.3 |
| Virgin America | 82.0% | 80.7% | 1.3 |
| Total | 82.9% | 82.3% | 0.6 |