JetBlue Airways reports March traffic

JetBlue Airways has reported traffic in March 2019 increased 7.9% from March 2018, on a capacity increase of 12.6%. Load factor for March 2019 was 85.3%, a decrease of 3.7 points from March 2018. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor for March 2019 was 98.4% and its on-time performance was 73.8%. JetBlue revised its first quarter RASM to show that it is expected to decrease approximately 3.1% year-over-year, versus the prior guidance range of negative 1.5 to negative 3.5 percent. Higher than expected completion factor negatively impacted first quarter RASM by approximately 0.75 points. CASM ex-fuel growth for the first quarter is