NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - September 11, 2015) - JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU) reported its preliminary traffic results for August 2015. Traffic in August increased 6.7 percent from August 2014, on a capacity increase of 8.3 percent.
Load factor for August 2015 was 87.0 percent, a decrease of 1.3 points from August 2014. JetBlue's preliminary completion factor was 98.9 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 74.0 percent. JetBlue's preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) for the month of August decreased approximately three percent year over year, which was negatively impacted by a late Labor Day this year. For the third quarter of 2015, PRASM is expected to change between negative half percent and positive half percent year over year.
| JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS | |||
| August 2015 | August 2014 | % Change | |
| Revenue passenger miles (000) | 3,966,602 | 3,718,923 | 6.7% |
| Available seat miles (000) | 4,558,901 | 4,210,974 | 8.3% |
| Load factor | 87.0% | 88.3% | -1.3 pts. |
| Revenue passengers | 3,283,266 | 3,131,183 | 4.9% |
| Departures | 28,903 | 27,420 | 5.4% |
| Average stage length | 1,104 | 1,093 | 1.0% |
| Y-T-D 2015 | Y-T-D 2014 | % Change | |
| Revenue passenger miles (000) | 28,058,840 | 25,686,255 | 9.2% |
| Available seat miles (000) | 32,810,570 | 30,177,569 | 8.7% |
| Load factor | 85.5% | 85.1% | 0.4 pt. |
| Revenue passengers | 23,555,460 | 21,732,319 | 8.4% |
| Departures | 211,404 | 197,574 | 7.0% |
| Average stage length | 1,095 | 1,092 | 0.3% |
(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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