Southwest Airlines has reported a decrease in traffic and load factor for December and an increase in capacity. The results include figures for AirTran Airways.
Combined traffic in revenue passenger miles dipped 0.3% to 8.20 billion from 8.22 billion in the same month last year; while available seat miles or ASMs, increased by 1.8% to 10.45 billion from last year's 10.27 billion.
Combined load factor for the month declined 1.7 percentage points to 78.4% from the year-ago month's 80.1 percent.
Revenue passengers carried totaled 8.93 million, up 0.4% from 8.90 million in the year-ago month. Total trips flown in December increased 1.3% to 114,957 from 113,503 in the prior-year month.
Traffic dips for Southwest in December
