Southwest Airlines Reports January 2015 Traffic

DALLAS, Feb. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced today that the Company flew 8.0 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in January 2015, an 8.6 percent increase from the 7.4 billion RPMs flown in January 2014. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 10.2 percent to 10.7 billion from the January 2014 level of 9.7 billion. The January 2015 load factor was 75.1 percent compared with 76.3 percent in January 2014. For January 2015, passenger revenue per ASM (PRASM) is estimated to have decreased approximately one percent, as compared with January 2014.