JetBlue Airways Reports August 2012 Traffic

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — JetBlue Airways Corporation [NASDAQ: JBLU] reported its preliminary traffic results for August 2012. Traffic in August increased 13.1 percent from August 2011, on a capacity increase of 12.8 percent.

Load factor for August 2012 was 87.6 percent, an increase of 0.3 points from August 2011. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor was 99.6 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 74.0 percent. JetBlue’s preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) for the month of August increased three percent year over year. For the month of September, PRASM is expected to decrease between three and four percent year over year.