CALGARY — WestJet announced Tuesday that its February 2013 traffic resulted in a record load factor of 86.1 per cent, up 3.4 percentage points from the year before.

Revenue passenger miles, or traffic, increased 7.3 per cent year over year, and capacity, measured in available seat miles, grew 3.1 per cent over the same period. The airline flew 1.4 million guests in February, a year-over-year increase of 5.5 per cent or approximately 74,300 customers.

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