socialmedian: Alaska Air posts October traffic growth

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Nov 04, 2009

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Alaska Air Group subsidiary Alaska Airlines said late Tuesday its total October traffic rose 3% to 1.5 billion revenue passenger miles from 1.4 billion revenue passenger miles a year ago. A revenue passenger mile is equal to one passenger flown one mile. Total October capacity fell 1.6% to 1.9 billion available seat miles from a year ago. Load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, in October rose to 77% from 73.6% last year.

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