Alaska Airlines December traffic rose 8.7 percent
Alaska Airlines said Tuesday that its December traffic rose 8.7 percent from a year earlier, as the West Coast carrier added to industry evidence that air travel is increasing although from very low levels.
AirTran Airways, a unit of AirTran Holdings Inc. , said Wednesday that its December traffic rose 5.3% from a year earlier to more than 1.5 billion revenue passenger miles.