NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU) reported its preliminary traffic results for October 2016. Traffic in October increased 6.5 percent from October 2015, on a capacity increase of 5.5 percent.

Load factor for October 2016 was 84.8 percent, an increase of 0.8 points from October 2015. JetBlue’s preliminary completion factor was 97.7 percent and its on-time (1) performance was 77.0 percent. JetBlue’s preliminary revenue per available seat mile for the month of October decreased approximately three percent year over year. Hurricane Matthew negatively impacted October unit revenue by approximately two percentage points.