In other news:
Air France-KLM reported a 7.6% traffic increase in August, and a capacity increase of 6.1%. The load factor was up 1.2 points to 85.7% compared to a year ago.
Air France said its Americas network saw strong growth, up 10.7%. Asia was also up versus last August. Though traffic in and out of Japan remains weak, Asia’s load factor as a whole was 89.4%, up 1.4% year-over-year.
Delta’s traffic results for August showed that system traffic decreased 0.3% compared to August of last year on a 0.8% decrease in capacity. The system load factor of 86.9% was 0.4 points higher than the prior year.
International traffic increased 1.9% year over year on a 1.8% increase in capacity, and the international load factor increased to 87.5%.
Domestic traffic decreased 1.8% year over year on a 2.6% decrease in capacity. The domestic load factor increased 0.7 points to 86.5%.