Southwest Airlines Reports May Traffic
DALLAS, June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced today that the Company flew 6.3 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in May 2007, a 5.2 percent increase from the 6.0 billion RPMs flown in May 2006. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 9.2 percent to 8.5 billion from the May 2006 level of 7.8 billion. The load factor for the month was 74.0 percent, compared to 76.8 percent for the same period last year.
For the first five months of 2007, Southwest flew 28.3 billion RPMs, compared to the 27.0 billion RPMs recorded for the same period of 2006, an increase of 4.9 percent. Available seat miles increased 8.1 percent to 40.3 billion from the 2006 level of 37.3 billion. The year-to-date load factor was 70.1 percent, compared to 72.3 percent for the same period last year.
This release, as well as past news releases on Southwest, are available online at http://www.southwest.com/?src=IR_060407.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE TRAFFIC STATISTICS
MAY
2007 2006 CHANGE
Revenue passengers carried 7,820,858 7,406,651 5.6 %
Enplaned passengers 8,929,948 8,488,998 5.2 %
Revenue passenger miles (000) 6,268,313 5,959,458 5.2 %
Available seat miles (000) 8,473,683 7,761,120 9.2 %
Load factor 74.0% 76.8% (2.8) pts.
Average length of haul 801 805 (0.5)%
Trips flown 98,504 91,854 7.2 %
YEAR-TO-DATE
2007 2006 CHANGE
Revenue passengers carried 35,160,459 33,680,291 4.4 %
Enplaned passengers 40,267,998 38,635,221 4.2 %
Revenue passenger miles (000) 28,299,372 26,973,507 4.9 %
Available seat miles (000) 40,341,540 37,311,131 8.1 %
Load factor 70.1% 72.3% (2.2) pts.
Average length of haul 805 801 0.5 %
Trips flown 471,072 442,921 6.4 %
SOURCE Southwest Airlines Co.
Released June 4, 2007