Virgin America Reports August 2016 Operational Results

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Virgin America Inc. (NASDAQ: VA) today reported its preliminary operational results for August 2016. The airline’s traffic (measured in revenue passenger miles) increased 19.9 percent on capacity (measured in available seat miles) that was 16.4 percent higher from the same month in 2015.

Load factor was 86.1 percent, an increase of 2.5 points from August 2015. The number of onboard passengers increased 14.8 percent from the same month last year.