AirTran Airways reports 2.7% growth in December traffic

The December load factor rose 1.2 percentage points to 78.9%.

During the month the airline carried 2,008,346 passengers, up 1.5% from 1,978,508 passengers in December 2009.

AirTran also announced its full-year figures, reporting a 5.3% increase in traffic as capacity increased by 3.3%. The load factor for the year was up 1.6 points to 81.4% and the number of passengers carried increased by 3.0% to a record 24,721,226, compared with 23,997,810 passengers in the prior year.

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