Record Load Factors

[wnbubbleboy]

Southwest Airlines Co. filled 82.1 percent of its seats with paying passengers in June, the highest monthly load factor in its history, the airline said Tuesday.

The loads exceeded the previous best month, July 2005, when it filled 80.8 percent of its seats. Its best June came last year when it reported an 80.4 percent load factor.

Southwest chief executive officer Gary Kelly has told analysts last week that the company was having a record month, accomplished by selling tickets at lower prices.





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[usstew]

Southwest Airlines Co. filled 82.1 percent of its seats with paying passengers in June, the highest monthly load factor in its history, the airline said Tuesday.

The loads exceeded the previous best month, July 2005, when it filled 80.8 percent of its seats. Its best June came last year when it reported an 80.4 percent load factor.

Southwest chief executive officer Gary Kelly has told analysts last week that the company was having a record month, accomplished by selling tickets at lower prices.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...t.3b947d9f.html

Rock on Southwest-you truly are the BEST!!!!!!

 

[WNrforlife]

Rock on Southwest-you truly are the BEST!!!!!!

We know we are....

 

[Flying Photog]

Southwest chief executive officer Gary Kelly has told analysts last week that the company was having a record month, accomplished by selling tickets at lower prices.

Lower ticket prices = lower yield = lower profit = lower stock price.

IMO, it should NEVER be cheaper to fly than drive. Even if prices were similar or slightly higher, pax would/should fly on the convenience or speed of flying over driving and traffic.

 

[mrman]

Lower ticket prices = lower yield = lower profit = lower stock price.

IMO, it should NEVER be cheaper to fly than drive. Even if prices were similar or slightly higher, pax would/should fly on the convenience or speed of flying over driving and traffic.

That's odd because how WN started was their mindset was our competion is not the other airline but the car going DAL-HOU

 

[Flying Photog]

That's odd because how WN started was their mindset was our competion is not the other airline but the car going DAL-HOU

Right you are, but things change. Herb & Rollin King (supposedly) never planned to fly to other states either, and look where we are now.

 

[mga707]

Right you are, but things change. Herb & Rollin King (supposedly) never planned to fly to other states either, and look where we are now.

Herb, Rollin, and Lamar (Muse--don't forget the other founder!) may have engaged in idle daydreams about expanding out of Texas, but. don't forget, the period in which WN was put together and took off was an entirely different mindset. In 1971 nobody seriously thought that the CAB and all of its attendant regulations would by flying off into the sunset in under a decade, and that the the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 would unleash seismic changes in the industry starting in December of that year.
Deregulation wasn't even on the radar until the Carter administration took over in 1977, and it got an additional boost when Ferris of United bucked all of his cohorts at the other then-trunk carriers and came out in support of the bill.