Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. said October traffic rose 22% to 817.4 million revenue passenger miles from 669.3 million revenue passenger miles a year earlier, according to preliminary figures.

The Denver air carrier said capacity increased 11% to 1.02 billion available seat miles from 920.9 million a year earlier. Load factor, or percentage of seats filled, rose to 79.8% from 72.7% a year earlier.