October Traffic Rises More Than 30 Percent

The effect of Southwest's $25 fare sale in late summer is readily apparent in the carrier's traffic numbers. Southwest reported yesterday a 31.5% gain in revenue passenger miles for October, on a 9.4% increase in capacity, which caused the load factor to skyrocket 12.2 percentage points, to 72.2%...

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