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Delta Air Lines October Traffic, Capacity Fall

 
By Wallace Witkowski
MarketWatch Pulse
     

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Delta Air Lines Inc. said Thursday that total October traffic fell 6.5% to 15.3 billion revenue passenger miles from 16.37 billion a year ago. A revenue passenger mile equals one passenger flown one mile. Capacity in October declined 8.3% to 18.18 billion available seat miles from a year ago. Load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, in October rose to 84.2% from 82.6% last year.

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