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JetBlue Traffic Keeps Rising

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - April 13, 2016

The Caribbean’s fastest-growing carrier is seeing continued strong traffic growth.

New York-based JetBlue, which has been rapidly expanding in the Caribbean, saw a 12.1 percent increase in revenue passenger miles in March, with 3.965 billion, according to its latest report.

The carrier also saw a 12.5 percent increase in available seat miles, with 4.57 billion.

Load factor for the carrier in March was 86.8 percent, a slight decrease of 0.4 percentage points in the period.

JetBlue has been adding new destinations across the region, along with an expansion of its Mint premium cabin service to a number of Caribbean islands.

The company operates an average of 900 daily flights to 96 cities in the US, the Caribbean and Latin America.

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