Southwest Airlines Reports August Traffic
DALLAS, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced today that the Company flew 7.0 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in August 2007, a 12.1 percent increase from the 6.2 billion RPMs flown in August 2006. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 8.1 percent to 8.7 billion from the August 2006 level of 8.1 billion. The load factor for the month was 80.0 percent, compared to 77.1 percent for the same period last year.
For the eight months ended August 31, 2007, Southwest flew 49.2 billion RPMs, compared to the 45.7 billion RPMs recorded for the same period of 2006, an increase of 7.6 percent. Available seat miles increased 8.3 percent to 66.1 billion from the 2006 level of 61.0 billion. The year-to-date load factor was 74.4 percent, compared to 74.9 percent for the same period last year.
This news release, as well as past news releases on Southwest, are available online at http://www.southwest.com/?src=IR_090507.
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE TRAFFIC STATISTICS
AUGUST
2007 2006 CHANGE
Revenue passengers carried 8,272,345 7,470,452 10.7%
Enplaned passengers 9,605,342 8,657,863 10.9%
Revenue passenger miles (000) 6,995,510 6,240,630 12.1%
Available seat miles (000) 8,746,716 8,089,812 8.1%
Load factor 80.0% 77.1% 2.9pts.
Average length of haul 846 835 1.3%
Trips flown 101,407 95,195 6.5%
YEAR-TO-DATE
2007 2006 CHANGE
Revenue passengers carried 59,969,647 56,199,103 6.7%
Enplaned passengers 69,055,656 64,743,993 6.7%
Revenue passenger miles (000) 49,172,559 45,695,050 7.6%
Available seat miles (000) 66,063,302 61,015,904 8.3%
Load factor 74.4% 74.9% (0.5)pts.
Average length of haul 820 813 0.9%
Trips flown 769,230 721,901 6.6%
SOURCE Southwest Airlines Co.
Released September 5, 2007