1st Q Numbers look great!

[swamt]

he a real smart man.   
 
swamt or wn  yesterday I noticed a SWA 737 with ETOPS written on the nose gear door   Is that a 800 series and if so is that the only model SWA uses for Caribbean flights?   Sorry I don't remember the tail nbr  but it left sometime in the 3p-4p hr   I know this bec I was working an AA MD80 aircraft and SWA is right across the alley way 

Yes it was an 800.  The tell tale ID marker is the 2 over wing exits.  Not sure if this is or will be the only model used for Caribbean flights...

 

[swamt]

Some more very positive numbers from DAL LF since the W/A has gone by the waste side. And all these numbers include 90% plus load factors just out of LF...
 
Dallas Love Field airline traffic soars nearly 37 percent in November thanks to the end of the Wright ...

 

[robbedagain]

great job!   Thanks for the info swamt   

 

[swamt]

More new flights started for first time ever out of DAL LF...
 
Southwest Airlines Adds Direct Flights to Bay Area

 

[jimntx]

I do wish the media would learn the difference between direct and non-stop flights.  A DAL-PHX-SFO flight with no change of planes is a direct flight.  DAL-SFO is a non-stop flight.
 
BTW, congrats, guys.  Of course, if I get furloughed again due to your new flights, I'm gonna take it real personal.

 

[WorldTraveler]

if layoffs reach your seniority, there are much bigger problems than a couple SFO flights.

WN will do fine. so will you.

 

[DL2WN]

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[WorldTraveler]

WN reported its traffic for December and Wall Street wasn't happy with its RASM drop - which was actually in line with what DL reported.

AA and UA did not report monthly RASM.

WN's traffic was stable and carriers did say that the shift in the Thanksgiving holiday would affect December 2014 RASM but Wall Street didn't get it or at least penalized all of the carriers about equally.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/southwest-airlines-reports-december-traffic-134500779.html

 

[does this plane go to paris]

Traffic was stable.  WN added 2.9% capacity and the traffic increased 2.8%. Load factor, went down 0.1% to 82.7 from a yoy percentage of 82.8%.
 
AS added 12.1% capacity and saw an increase of 9.1% in traffic.
 
DL added 4% capacity but only increased traffic by 2.1 % dropping their load factor to 83.7 from last year's 85.2%
 
Flying an a/c with 2 customers didn't help the load factor but it made the news.

 

[WorldTraveler]

And yet RASM was comparable for both DL and WN and down for all airlines in December

 

[DL2WN]

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[swamt]

Traffic was stable.  WN added 2.9% capacity and the traffic increased 2.8%. Load factor, went down 0.1% to 82.7 from a yoy percentage of 82.8%.
 
AS added 12.1% capacity and saw an increase of 9.1% in traffic.
 
DL added 4% capacity but only increased traffic by 2.1 % dropping their load factor to 83.7 from last year's 85.2%
 
Flying an a/c with 2 customers didn't help the load factor but it made the news.

I was going to wait for the 4th Q numbers to do an overall comparo.  I still say we will surpass the 1 Billion in profits for 2014, 20% ROIC, and full year record numbers once again.  Plus we will be growing again in 2015.  I have seen a couple numbers for 4Q but still waiting for final numbers for the 4th Q and full year 2014.  It all looks good to me so far...

 

[does this plane go to paris]

I was going to wait for the 4th Q numbers to do an overall comparo. 

I'm happy that this topic has a.) been about good news all year long.  b.) had 360+ replies. c.) surprised that it was closed down to possible off topic hogging.  With that being said and what swamt just said, maybe it's time to shut down this topic and start a new one for (possibly) fantastic new '15 Numbers.  Thoughts? 
 
Off topic, but maybe I need to run a scan or recheck my virus scan, yesterday and today, when I've signed into airlineforums.com I've been redirected several times to off topic sites.  Anyone else getting that?

 

[Kev3188]

I haven't had any issues... FWIW, I've used an iPad, a PC, and my phone over the last few days...

 

[does this plane go to paris]

Thanx Kev