/EINPresswire.com/ -- NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - December 10, 2015) - JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) reported its preliminary traffic results for November 2015. Traffic in November increased 14.2 percent from November 2014, on a capacity increase of 10.7 percent.

Load factor for November 2015 was 83.9 percent, an increase of 2.5 points from November 2014. JetBlue's preliminary completion factor was 99.5 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 83.0 percent. JetBlue's preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) for the month of November increased approximately two percent year over year. For the fourth quarter of 2015, PRASM is expected to decrease between two and three percent year over year. PRASM is negatively impacted in the quarter by the timing of year-end Holidays and a higher completion factor than expected, due to better operational performance and more favorable winter weather than anticipated.

                                                                            
                      JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS                       
                                                                            
                                November 2015  November 2014  % Change      
                                                                            
                                                                            
Revenue passenger miles (000)   3,399,688      2,977,961      14.2%         
                                                                            
                                                                            
Available seat miles (000)      4,052,314      3,659,781      10.7%         
                                                                            
                                                                            
Load factor                     83.9%          81.4%          2.5 pts.      
                                                                            
                                                                            
Revenue passengers              2,879,581      2,545,034      13.2%         
                                                                            
                                                                            
Departures                      25,764         23,931         7.7%          
                                                                            
                                                                            
Average stage length            1,090          1,085          0.5%          
                                                                            
                                                                            
                                Y-T-D 2015     Y-T-D 2014     % Change      
                                                                            
                                                                            
Revenue passenger miles (000)   37,911,143     34,399,037     10.2%         
                                                                            
                                                                            
Available seat miles (000)      44,678,567     40,810,905     9.5%          
                                                                            
                                                                            
Load factor                     84.9%          84.3%          0.6 pt.       
                                                                            
                                                                            
Revenue passengers              31,942,652     29,221,820     9.3%          
                                                                            
                                                                            
Departures                      288,003        268,026        7.5%          
                                                                            
                                                                            
Average stage length            1,090          1,086          0.4%          
                                                                            
                                                                            

(1) The U.S. Department of Transportation considers on-time arrivals to be those domestic flights arriving within 14 minutes of schedule.

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