TABLE - U.S. airlines February traffic data

NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) - The following table shows February
operational data for the 10 largest U.S. airlines by passenger
traffic, compared with the same month a year earlier:

----Traffic---- ---Capacity--- --Load factor--

RPMs pct chg ASMs pct chg pct Change
American 9.97 +2.5 12.98 +2.0 76.9 +0.3 pts
Delta* 8.47 +6.7 11.31 +5.6 74.9 +0.8 pts
United 8.15 -0.5 10.95 +3.7 74.4 -3.1 pts
Continental 6.03 +4.8 7.94 +6.4 76.0 -1.1 pts
Northwest 5.43 +5.0 6.69 +2.0 81.1 +0.2 pts
Southwest 5.43 +12.0 7.91 +9.0 68.6 +1.8 pts
US Airways 4.46 +2.9 5.78 +2.2 77.2 +0.5 pts
JetBlue 2.03 +16.7 2.64 +21.5 76.8 -3.2 pts
Alaska Air 1.42 +13.5 1.94 +9.4 73.3 +2.6 pts
AirTran 1.42 +28.2 1.82 +14.0 78.1 +8.6 pts

NOTES: Traffic is measured in billions of revenue passenger
miles, the distance traveled by paying passengers.

Capacity is measured in billions of available seat miles,
reflecting the number of seats available for sale and the length of
the flights.

Load factor is the percentage of seats occupied by paying
passengers and change is in percentage points.

*Figures for Delta include data for regional affiliates.

All data are from the airlines.