Airlines In Review: American, United, Southwest, JetBlue Report Operating Results For April

Over the last few days, American, United, Southwest, and JetBlue released their traffic results for the month of April and year-to-date 2015. While Southwest and JetBlue continued to aggressively add capacity, American and United, who had recently lowered their capacity expansion targets for the year, also grew their flying capacity during the month. This pulled down the load factor and unit revenue of all these airlines, except JetBlue, which managed to deliver an increase in its operational ef...