Alaska Air Group reports July 2018 operational results

Alaska Air Group, comprised of Alaska Airlines and Virgin America, as well as regional carriers Horizon Air, SkyWest Airlines and Peninsula Airlines, reports combined traffic in July 2018 up by 7.6% to 5.236 million revenue passenger miles (RPM) on a 6.8% increase in capacity to 5.969 million available seat miles (ASM) compared to July 2017. The combined load factor increased 0.7 percentage points to 87.7%. Mainline carriers, Alaska Airlines and Virgin America, reported a 6.7% increase in traffic to 4.785 RPMs on a 5.7% increase in capacity to 5.420 million ASMs compared to July 2017. Load factor increased 0.9 points