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Southwest Airlines Reports April Traffic
Monday May 3, 6:00 pm ET
DALLAS, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV - News) announced today that the Company flew 4.7 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in April 2004, a 19.2 percent increase from the 3.9 billion RPMs flown in April 2003. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 4.1 percent to 6.1 billion from the April 2003 level of 5.9 billion. The load factor for the month was 76.2 percent, compared to 66.6 percent for the same period last year.
For the four months ended April 30, 2004, Southwest flew 16.5 billion RPMs, compared to the 14.8 billion RPMs recorded for the same period of 2003, an increase of 11.1 percent. Available seat miles increased 5.3 percent to 24.5 billion from the 2003 level of 23.3 billion. The year-to-date load factor was 67.2 percent, compared to 63.6 percent for the same period last year.
This release, as well as past news releases on Southwest, are available online at www.southwest.com .
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE TRAFFIC STATISTICS
APRIL
2004 2003 CHANGE
Revenue passengers carried 6,210,438 5,387,526 15.3%
Enplaned passengers 7,115,574 6,133,270 16.0%
Revenue passenger miles (000) 4,688,575 3,934,587 19.2%
Available seat miles (000) 6,149,540 5,907,597 4.1%
Load factor 76.2% 66.6% 9.6 pts.
Average length of haul 755 730 3.4%
Trips flown 79,871 78,667 1.5%
YEAR-TO-DATE
2004 2003 CHANGE
Revenue passengers carried 22,205,499 20,465,063 8.5%
Enplaned passengers 25,305,978 23,302,842 8.6%
Revenue passenger miles (000) 16,480,998 14,830,288 11.1%
Available seat miles (000) 24,531,133 23,306,729 5.3%
Load factor 67.2% 63.6% 3.6 pts.
Average length of haul 742 725 2.3%
Trips flown 318,340 311,754 2.1%
