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Old Jun 2, 2009 | 2:09 pm
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May numbers reported

And they don't look good....

Bolding below is mine.

NEW YORK, June 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JetBlue Airways Corporation (Nasdaq: JBLU) reported today that its traffic in May decreased 3.3 percent from May 2008, on a capacity decrease of 1.1 percent.

Load factor for May 2009 was 77.4 percent, a decrease of 1.8 points from May 2008. JetBlue's preliminary completion factor was 99.7 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 77.3 percent. JetBlue's preliminary passenger revenue per available seat mile for the month of May decreased ten percent year over year.

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                        JETBLUE AIRWAYS TRAFFIC RESULTS

                                   May 2009       May 2008        % Change
    Revenue passenger miles (000)     2,095,245      2,167,648         (3.3)%
    Available seat miles (000)        2,706,665      2,736,173         (1.1)%
    Load factor                            77.4%          79.2%    (1.8) pts.
    Revenue passengers                1,829,301      1,802,208          1.5 %
    Departures                           18,126         17,070          6.2 %
    Average stage length                  1,060          1,139         (6.9)%

                                  Y-T-D 2009     Y-T-D 2008       % Change
    Revenue passenger miles (000)    10,357,741     11,014,525         (6.0)%
    Available seat miles (000)       13,406,200     14,003,460         (4.3)%
    Load factor                            77.3%          78.7%    (1.4) pts.
    Revenue passengers                9,074,459      9,258,602         (2.0)%
    Departures                           89,476         87,357          2.4 %
    Average stage length                  1,064          1,132         (6.0)%

    (1) The U.S. Department of Transportation considers on-time arrivals to be
        those domestic flights arriving within 14 minutes of schedule.
Seeing the LF hold reasonably steady is good but a 10% drop in PRASM is going to hurt. Last month they actually increased PRASM over 2008. And May included the Memorial Day holiday, typically a higher fare time of year.
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