United Continental Holdings Inc. late Monday said its March traffic rose 3% to 17.61 billion revenue passenger miles from a year earlier. A revenue passenger mile is equal to one passenger flown one mile. Total capacity last month increased 3.4% to 21.66 billion available seat miles. However, load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, fell 0.3% to 81.3%. The data release comes amid mounting negative publicity for the airline over an incident in which a passenger had to be forcibly removed from an overbooked United flight. Shares of United slipped 0.2% after hours.
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