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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Southwest Airlines October Traffic Up 1.9%
By Christopher Hinton
MarketWatch Pulse
NEW YORK -- Southwest Airlines Co. said Thursday its total October traffic rose 1.9% to 6.3 billion revenue passenger miles from 6.2 billion revenue passenger miles a year ago. A revenue passenger mile is equal to one passenger flown one mile. Total October capacity fell 9.4% to 8 billion available seat miles from a year ago. Load factor, or the percentage of available seats filled with passengers, in October rose to 79.2% from 70.4% last year.
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