SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Virgin America today reported its preliminary operational results for January 2015. The airline’s traffic (measured in revenue passenger miles) decreased 0.7 percent on capacity (measured in available seat miles) that was 0.9% lower than the same month in 2014.
Load factor was 76.5 percent, up .2 points from January 2014. The number of onboard passengers increased 0.8 percent from the same month last year.
January
2015 2014 Change
Revenue Passenger Miles (000) 739,118 744,521 (0.7%)
Available Seat Miles (000) 966,399 975,232 (0.9%)
Passenger Load Factor 76.5% 76.3% 0.2pts
Onboard Passengers (000) 494 490 0.8%