American Airlines Reports August Traffic

FORT WORTH, Texas, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines reported that August traffic increased 3.1 percent versus the same period last year. Capacity increased by 3.2 percent year over year, resulting in a load factor of 84.6 percent, which was within 0.1 points of last year's load factor.

Domestic traffic increased 0.6 percent year over year on 0.8 percent more capacity. International traffic increased by 7.1 percent relative to last year on a capacity increase of 7.0 percent.

Source: American Airlines

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