JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU) reported its preliminary traffic results for January 2018. Traffic in January decreased 1.7 percent from January 2017, on a capacity increase of 0.1 percent.
Load factor for January 2018 was 81.9 percent, a decrease of 1.4 points from January 2017. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor was 94.1 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 65.8 percent.
JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS | ||||||||||||
| January 2018 | January 2017 | % Change | ||||||||||
| Revenue passenger miles (000) | 3,798,396 | 3,863,193 | (1.7 | )% | ||||||||
| Available seat miles (000) | 4,639,118 | 4,636,641 | 0.1 | % | ||||||||
| Load factor | 81.9 | % | 83.3 | % | (1.4) pts. | |||||||
| Revenue passengers | 3,158,340 | 3,290,528 | (4.0 | )% | ||||||||
| Departures | 28,596 | 29,329 | (2.5 | )% | ||||||||
| Average stage length (miles) | 1,092 | 1,078 | 1.3 | % | ||||||||
(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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