TABLE - U.S. airlines October traffic data

NEW YORK, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The following table lists October
mainline operational data for the nine largest U.S. airlines by
passenger traffic, compared with the same month a year earlier:

----Traffic---- ---Capacity--- --Load factor--

RPMs pct chg ASMs pct chg pct Change
Delta* 15.30 -6.5 18.18 -8.3 84.2 +1.6 pts
American 10.24 -2.6 12.33 -7.3 83.1 +4.0 pts
United 8.43 -3.8 10.06 -6.8 83.8 +2.5 pts
Continental 6.47 +1.9 7.80 -2.4 83.0 +3.5 pts
Southwest 6.33 +1.9 7.99 -9.4 79.2 +8.8 pts
US Airways 4.67 -0.8 5.65 -1.6 82.6 +0.7 pts
JetBlue 2.02 +7.2 2.50 +7.1 80.8 +0.1 pts
Alaska** 1.46 +3.0 1.89 -1.6 77.0 +3.4 pts
AirTran 1.51 +5.2 1.90 +7.0 79.2 -1.3 pts

NOTES: Traffic is measured in billions of revenue passenger
miles, the distance traveled by paying passengers.

Capacity is measured in billions of available seat miles,
reflecting the number of seats available for sale and the length of
the flights.

Load factor is the percentage of seats occupied by paying
passengers and change is in percentage points.

*Figures for Delta include data for regional affiliates.

**Alaska Airlines doesn't include unit Horizon Air.

All data are from the airlines.