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United Airlines October Traffic Down 1.6%

SAN FRANCISCO -- United Airlines' said late Tuesday traffic in October fell 1.6% to 9.68 billion revenue passenger miles from 9.84 billion revenue miles in October 2008. A revenue passenger mile is equal to one passenger flown one mile. Total capacity last month declined 4.3% to 11.64 billion available seat miles from 12.17 billion a year earlier. Load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, in October rose 2.3 percentage points to 83.1%.

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