NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- US Airways said Wednesday its total October mainline traffic fell less than 1% from a year ago to 4.7 billion revenue passenger miles. A revenue passenger mile is equal to one passenger flown one mile. Total October capacity fell 1.6% to 5.7 billion available seat miles. Load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, in October rose 0.7 points to 82.6%.
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