JetBlue Airways Reports March 2013 Traffic

NEW YORK, April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — JetBlue Airways Corporation [NASDAQ: JBLU] reported its preliminary traffic results for March 2013. Traffic in March increased 8.6 percent from March 2012, on a capacity increase of 7.5 percent.

Load factor for March 2013 was 87.1 percent, an increase of 0.8 points from March 2012. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor was 99.4 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 72.3 percent. JetBlue’s preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) for the month of March increased seven percent year over year. March PRASM was positively impacted by the shift in the Easter and Passover holidays from April last year.