Budget airline Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd
(ASX:VBA) says for the month of August the airline carried over 15 million passengers across its total network, an increase of 1.6 per cent.
The airline says the number of domestic travelers decreased 2.7 per cent for the month over the previous year.
However the airline saw a 41.5 per cent increase in the number of international passengers in August compared to a year ago.
Despite this rise in international passengers travelling Virgin Blue says its revenue load factor, a measure of profitability, fell 1.2 points from the year before to 77.8 per cent.
Virgin Blue says on time performance lifted 5.9 points to 85.3 per cent for the month, compared to 79.4 per cent the year before.
For the year to August the airline says domestic passengers are down 5.6 per cent with international numbers so far up 47.1 per cent from the previous year.
Virgin Blue reported a $160 million loss in 2009.
