Alaska Airlines May traffic declines 7.5%;
Alaska Airlines, a unit of Alaska Air Group Inc., reported that May traffic declined 7.5% to 1.5 billion revenue passenger miles or RPMs from 1.6 billion RPMs in the year-ago month.
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.