Continental Airlines reports May 2010 operational performance

The mainline load factor for the carrier stood at 84.1 percent, 2.8 points above the May 2009.

Further, Continental reported domestic mainline load factor of 85.4 percent, 0.7 points above from year earlier.

In May, the Continental Center I, Downtown Houston, Texas based airline flew 7.8 billion consolidated revenue passenger miles and 9.3 billion consolidated available seat miles, thus leading to consolidated traffic increase of 3.7 percent and a consolidated capacity increase of 0.2 percent, compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year.