Southwest Airlines Report Traffic Rise
Southwest Airlines recently reported carrying more passengers than it did during the same month last year. According to reports, the revenue passenger miles for Dallas-based Southwest airline saw an increase of 8.7 percent since last year.
The airline also reported of a 7.5% increase in the available seat miles i.e. increase from 8.2 billion to 8.8 billion. It said that its load factor in April '10 was 79.7% as compared to 78.8% in April 2010.
The airline also stated that it had flown 26.2 billion revenue passenger miles in the first four months of 2011, which is an 11% increase over the 23.6 billion revenue passenger miles during the same period in 2010.
Also, the available seat miles rose from 30.8 billion during the same four months in 1020 to 33.3 billion. As of now the airline's load factor has been reported to be 78.7% as compared to 76.7% for the same period of months last year.
