airline stocks were rising wednesday after the chief executive of united airlines laid out multiple reasons why he thinks the future of airtravel was set for take off united ticker ual reported thirdquarter results that beat wall street estimates the chicagobased carrier also said trasm or total revenue per available seat mile for the third quarter rose 255 from the same period in 2019 and that september was the third best trasm month in the company’s history not including the lowflying pandemic months