United Continental December Total Traffic Drops 4%

United Continental Holdings (NYSE: UAL) reported a 4% decline in its December total traffic.

UAL's load factor widened to 82.4%, from 81.2%, in the year-ago period. Its total traffic fell to 16.21 billion revenue passenger miles, from 16.88 billion RPMs, in the year-ago period.

For 2012, UAL's load factor rose 0.4 percentage point to 82.6%.

UAL shares closed at $25.62 yesterday.

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