AirTran June traffic rises on capacity boost

The UAL Corp. unit said June traffic was 11.97 billion revenue passenger miles, down from 12.03 billion a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile, the airline industry's fundamental performance yardstick, represents one passenger flown one mile. ...

United said it flew a total of 10.34 billion revenue passenger miles in June, down from 10.73 billion in the same month last year. A revenue passenger mile is a unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile. Capacity fell 0.6 percent to 11.97 ...

Northwest flew a total of 3 billion revenue passenger miles, up from 2.74 billion in the same month last year. A revenue passenger mile is a unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile. International traffic rose 9.6 percent to 3 billion ...

The airline flew 1.89 billion revenue passenger miles in the month, up from 1.63 billion in June 2007. A revenue passenger mile is an industry measurement accounting for one paying passenger flown one mile. Capacity rose 13 percent to 2.23 billion ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. said Wednesday traffic inched 0.2 percent higher in June, on a slight increase in capacity. Systemwide traffic grew to 11.69 billion revenue passenger miles, from 11.67 billion in June 2007. A revenue passenger mile is a unit ...

The carrier increased capacity measured by available seat miles by 0.7 percent, and traffic measured by revenue passenger miles grew by 0.2 percent. Delta's international flights were 83.3 percent full on average, compared with 83.4 percent a year ...