Alaska Airlines said Friday its traffic in June rose 11.5 percent from a year earlier.
The airline, a unit of Seattle-based Alaska Air Group, said it flew paying passengers 1.83 billion miles last month, compared with 1.64 billion a year earlier.
Capacity, or the airline’s number of available seats, rose 6.4 percent to 2.17 billion available seat miles.
With traffic rising more than total seats, planes were more full. Alaska’s occupancy rate, or load factor, rose 3.9 percentage points to 84.6 percent.
Alaska’s sister carrier Horizon Air saw a 0.9 percent increase in traffic last month on a 1.2 percent decrease in the number of available seats. The carrier’s load factor rose 0.3 percentage points to 79.1 percent.
Alaska Air Group shares fell $1.98, or 4.5 percent, to $42.28 in afternoon trading.
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