Southwest’s March and quarterly traffic rises
5 April 2007The Dallas-based low-cost carrier said it flew 6.1 billion revenue passenger miles last month compared to March 2006 when the airline flew 5.8 billion revenue passenger miles. A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown 1 mile.
Load factor, however, dropped in March as its percentage of seats filled slipped to 73.3 percent from 75.5 percent a year ago.
