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Virgin America
In 2017, its last year in the data, Virgin America flew 63.0 passenger-miles per gallon of jet fuel. That is 2% worse than the all-airline figure that year. Since 2008 its figure has risen 9%.
63.0passenger-miles per gallon, 2017
0.155 kgCO2 per passenger-mile, 2017
84%of seats filled, 2017
206 milliongallons of jet fuel burned in scheduled passenger flying, 2017
Virgin America merged with Alaska, and BTS began combining their filings in April 2018. Later years are under Alaska Airlines.
Year by year
| Year | Passenger-miles per gallon | kg CO2 per passenger-mile | Seat-miles per gallon | Load factor | Passengers (millions) | Fuel (million gallons) | CO2 (thousand tonnes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 63.0 | 0.155 | 75.3 | 83.7% | 8.4 | 206 | 2,004 |
| 2016 | 63.3 | 0.154 | 75.7 | 83.5% | 8.1 | 192 | 1,877 |
| 2015 | 62.1 | 0.157 | 75.5 | 82.2% | 7.0 | 168 | 1,638 |
| 2014 | 62.7 | 0.155 | 76.2 | 82.4% | 6.5 | 161 | 1,567 |
| 2013 | 62.1 | 0.157 | 77.4 | 80.2% | 6.3 | 158 | 1,542 |
| 2012 | 61.8 | 0.158 | 78.0 | 79.3% | 6.2 | 161 | 1,565 |
| 2011 | 62.4 | 0.156 | 76.7 | 81.4% | 5.0 | 129 | 1,253 |
| 2010 | 61.4 | 0.159 | 75.4 | 81.5% | 3.9 | 102 | 990 |
| 2009 | 62.1 | 0.157 | 75.0 | 82.8% | 3.7 | 87 | 851 |
| 2008 | 57.7 | 0.169 | 75.4 | 76.5% | 2.5 | 59 | 576 |