Love Field's March 2006 Traffic Statistics (pdf file)
I have been waiting for these to come outt to see what changes, if any would take place.
First, here were the figures for last March.
March 2005
AA - 0
AE - 0
CO - 18,193
WN - 530,420
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Total passengers - 548,613
WN mkt share was 96.68%
CO mkt share was 3.32%
March 2006
AA - 25,500
AE - 15,139
CO - 27,603 - up 51.72%
WN - 549,384 - up 3.57%
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Total passengers - 617,626 - up 12.8%
AA mkt share - 4.13%
AE mkt share - 2.45%
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Total AA/AE mkt share - 6.58%
CO mkt share - 4.47%
WN mkt share - 88.95%
Jeff Fegan, in his letter to the other airports back in December 2004 said Southwest wanted to keep the Wright Amendment to protect it's monopoly at Love Field, yet as we can see, Southwest's market share has dropped.
(Note: CO's loads increased dramatically year over year because back in March 2005, Southwest still offered flights to Houston's Intercontinental airport. They discontinued flights there April 2, and CO then added additional flights on the route.)
At first glance, Southwest's small 3.57% increase in traffic doesn't appear all that impressive, but it is.
Back in March '05, Southwest had six additional flights to Houston Incontinental and 7 daily nonstops to New Orleans.
The six Houston flights are gone as well as 4 of the 7 New Orleans flights. That's ten flights lost but only 8 new flights (to STL and MCI) gained for a net loss of two flights per day. For Southwest to have any kind of increase at all in its numbers is impressive.
BTW, this hasn't just affected Love field.
Here at my home airport in Austin, we just had a record 740,685 travel through our airport in March. This is significant because there have only been six other mnonths where we acheived 700,00 or more passengers in a given month.-- June and July of 2000, 2001, and 2005. July. July 2005 was the record to beat -- we had 721,00 then.
Part of that increase is due to flights added over the past year by jetblue and Southwest. Part of that increase is because the Austin-Dallas flights are a little fulller because there's now two more cities (Kansas City and St. Louis) that are connectable through Dallas.
And part of the reason is all those AA folks doing mileage runs in and out of Austin to take advantage of AA's fly three get 60,000 miles promotion.
I'd be curious to know if other Wright Amendment cities traffic has been affected and if so, by how much.
LoneStarMike
I have been waiting for these to come outt to see what changes, if any would take place.
First, here were the figures for last March.
March 2005
AA - 0
AE - 0
CO - 18,193
WN - 530,420
==============
Total passengers - 548,613
WN mkt share was 96.68%
CO mkt share was 3.32%
March 2006
AA - 25,500
AE - 15,139
CO - 27,603 - up 51.72%
WN - 549,384 - up 3.57%
==============
Total passengers - 617,626 - up 12.8%
AA mkt share - 4.13%
AE mkt share - 2.45%
==================
Total AA/AE mkt share - 6.58%
CO mkt share - 4.47%
WN mkt share - 88.95%
Jeff Fegan, in his letter to the other airports back in December 2004 said Southwest wanted to keep the Wright Amendment to protect it's monopoly at Love Field, yet as we can see, Southwest's market share has dropped.
(Note: CO's loads increased dramatically year over year because back in March 2005, Southwest still offered flights to Houston's Intercontinental airport. They discontinued flights there April 2, and CO then added additional flights on the route.)
At first glance, Southwest's small 3.57% increase in traffic doesn't appear all that impressive, but it is.
Back in March '05, Southwest had six additional flights to Houston Incontinental and 7 daily nonstops to New Orleans.
The six Houston flights are gone as well as 4 of the 7 New Orleans flights. That's ten flights lost but only 8 new flights (to STL and MCI) gained for a net loss of two flights per day. For Southwest to have any kind of increase at all in its numbers is impressive.
BTW, this hasn't just affected Love field.
Here at my home airport in Austin, we just had a record 740,685 travel through our airport in March. This is significant because there have only been six other mnonths where we acheived 700,00 or more passengers in a given month.-- June and July of 2000, 2001, and 2005. July. July 2005 was the record to beat -- we had 721,00 then.
Part of that increase is due to flights added over the past year by jetblue and Southwest. Part of that increase is because the Austin-Dallas flights are a little fulller because there's now two more cities (Kansas City and St. Louis) that are connectable through Dallas.
And part of the reason is all those AA folks doing mileage runs in and out of Austin to take advantage of AA's fly three get 60,000 miles promotion.
I'd be curious to know if other Wright Amendment cities traffic has been affected and if so, by how much.
LoneStarMike
