United Airlines posts another traffic surge in September

After several months of major traffic gains, United Airlines continued to see a surge in traffic in September, according to the carrier’s ops report for the month released late Monday. The traffic surge was particularly pronounced on both the domestic and trans-Atlantic fronts. United said domestic traffic grew 9% year over year, with regional domestic traffic climbing a whopping 13.5% year over year. Mainline traffic grew a healthy 8% year over year. The growth, of course, has been spurred by United’s aggressive expansion of its route network to more second- and third-tier markets via regional flights. Internationally, United’s traffic climbed 3.8%, with the growth largely a result of a huge increase in trans-Atlantic traffic, up 11.2% year over year. <br/>