JetBlue Airways July Traffic, Capacity Rise - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) reported Wednesday that its traffic for the month of July increased 6.6 percent to 4.26 billion revenue passenger miles or RPMs from last year's 4 billion RPMs. Capacity increased 5.5 percent to 4.85 billion available seat miles or ASMs from 4.60 billion ASMs a year ago.

Revenue passengers increased 6.3 percent to 3.53 million from 3.32 million last year.

Load factor for July 2016 was 87.8 percent, an increase of 0.8 points from July 2015. JetBlue's preliminary completion factor was 98.0 percent and its on-time performance was 67.8 percent.

JetBlue's preliminary revenue per available seat mile for July decreased approximately two and a half percent year over year.

In pre-market activity on NASDAQ, JetBlue shares were gaining 1.24 percent to trade at $17.21.