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Airline achieves its third highest February load factor and flies a record 1.6 million guests

CALGARY, March 3, 2015 /CNW/ - WestJet today announced February 2015 traffic results with a load factor of 84.3 per cent. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs), or traffic, increased 3.3 per cent year over year, and capacity, measured in available seat miles (ASMs), grew 3.7 per cent over the same period. The airline flew 1.6 million guests in February, a year-over-year increase of 2.8 per cent or approximately 44,000 additional guests, and achieved an on-time performance rate of 75.8 per cent in the month, a year-over-year improvement of 6.7 percentage points.

"We are pleased with our continued traffic growth, achieving our third highest ever February load factor as we celebrated WestJet's 19th birthday," said WestJet President and CEO Gregg Saretsky. "My thanks go out to our more than 10,000 WestJetters for continuing to deliver our award winning brand of fun, friendly and caring guest experience."

February 2015 traffic results

Feb 2015 Feb 2014 Change

Load factor 84.3% 84.6% (0.3 pts)

ASMs (billions) 2.114 2.038 3.7%

RPMs (billions) 1.782 1.725 3.3%