Southwest Airlines July traffic

Southwest Airlines has reported revenue passenger miles increased 8.2% to 11.5bn in July, on the back of a 7% increase in capacity to 13.1bn available seat miles. The July load factor rose by one percentage point to 87.7%, with the year-to-date load factor up by 0.8 percentage points to 83.3%. Southwest has indicated that its operating revenue per available seat mile will fall 1.0% in the next quarter.