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JetBlue Oct. Traffic Up 10.4%

JetBlue Airways Corp (JBLU) said Wednesday its traffic for October increased 10.4 percent from last year to about 3 billion revenue passenger miles.

Capacity for October rose 7.6% year-over-year to 3.6 billion available seat miles.

Load factor for October was 83.5 percent, an increase of 2.1 points from a year ago.

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