Delta’s Passenger Unit Revenue Falls In September

Delta Air Lines reported a drop in passenger unit revenue for September, measured against the same period last year.

Consolidated PRASM (passenger revenue per available seat-mile) was down 3 percent from September 2015.

Delta said the drop was due to a supply-demand imbalance on trans-Atlantic routes and headwinds from prior year yen hedge gains.

For September, Delta served 14,991,797 passengers, up 3.1 percent from the same month last year. For the January-September period, total passenger numbers came in at 138.7 million, a 2.6 percent rise on last year.

System load factor was 84.6 percent in September, 84.4 percent for the year to date, both down about half a percentage point.