Air rising: LCC's, DAL layer, Moussa, LUV, and China Airlines

Airlines shares rose in Wednesday as investors cheered better-than-expected monthly traffic data. amr converter

U.S. Airways Group (NYSE: LCC) surged 14.23% to the $ 9.23. After Tuesday's close, the company reported that its consolidated passenger traffic in June increased 5.43 billion in revenue passenger miles, compared to 2.9% to 5.59 billion revenue passenger miles. Capacity rose 2.8% to 6.43 billion available seat miles from last year's load factors, or filled with passengers, the proportion of available seats, rose by 0.1 percentage points to 86.9%.

Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) rising 4.46% to 11.60. The world's largest airline, said Tuesday night transport system in June 2010 increase of 4.2 billion U.S. dollars, in June 2009 in the capacity increase of 1.5 percentage points. Load factor increased 2.2 percentage points to 87.7 percent.

AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) shares rose 5.78% to $ 6.77. The company's principal subsidiary, American Airlines announced Tuesday by 86.8,1 1.6 percentage points year on year increase in June load factor. The company said traffic increased by 3.2% and capacity increased by 1.3 years over the previous year.

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV's) up 5.93%, to 11.26 U.S. dollars. The airline said on Wednesday its consolidated traffic increased 4.7% to 8.44 billion revenue passenger miles or RPM package from June's 8.07 billion the same month last year, the RPM. The overall capacity of 972 million increased 2.2% to 9.51 billion, last year in June.

Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) rose 5.25%, $ 21.26. Last week, the world's fifth largest airline, said its consolidated traffic in June increased by 4.7% to 8.44 billion revenue passenger miles from 8.07 billion revenue passenger miles last year. Combined passenger load factor increased by 2.1 from 84.8% percentage points to 86.9% over the same period last year. Load factor rose to 87.3%, 2.1 percentage points from the main line. Comprehensive capacity, measured in available seat miles or ASMs measurement, advanced 2.2% to 9.72 billion in June 2009 from 951 million U.S. dollars.
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