US Airways Group September Mainline Traffic 3.5% Up - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - US Airways Group, Inc. (LCC), Thursday said that the mainline traffic was up 3.5 percent to 5.1 billion revenue passenger miles, from 4.9 billion revenue passenger miles last September. Capacity rose 3.8 percent to 6.1 billion available sear miles, from prior year's 5.8 billion. The group said that the mainline passenger load factor decreased 0.3 points to 84.1 percent from 84.4 percent last year.

For the month of September, US Airways' preliminary on-time performance as reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation was 88.3 percent with a completion factor of 99.3 percent, the company said.