Originally Posted by fastair

Actually UA has release relative RASM performance to last year ad last month. Relative numbers are nice, they show trends, but absolute numbers provide actual hard data. Without a reference point, a relative number isn't worth all that much. If airline a has a RASM of 13.65 and it improves 8% but airline b has a RASM of 14.7 and improves 4%, airline a is still doing worse than airline B, but it is closing the gap. Relative is only rleative to a fixed point of reference. Without that, it is still just guesswork, and UA choose not to release any abolute numbers in terms of rvenue performance (they did release them for operational performance.)