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HOUSTON - Continental Airlines Inc. said on Monday that its traffic rose 1.7 percent in October, even as it reduced flying.
Continental said it flew 7.26 billion revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger flown one mile, across its system, including regional flights. That was up from 7.14 billion revenue passenger miles in October 2008.
It said capacity in October fell 2.6 percent compared to October 2008.
Not counting regional partners, Continental said traffic rose 1.9 percent to 6.47 billion revenue passenger miles.
Continental's load factor, or the percentage of seats filled, rose 3.5 percentage points to 82.5 percent.
For the first 10 months of the year, Continental said consolidated traffic fell 5.3 percent to 74.83 billion revenue passenger miles, while mainline traffic was down 5 percent to 67.06 billion revenue passenger miles. Consolidated capacity fell 6.2 percent to 92.06 billion available seat miles, while capacity on Continental's mainline flights fell 6 percent to 81.92 billion available seat miles.
Consolidated load factor rose 0.8 percentage points to 81.3 percent.
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