Southwest Airlines provides April guidance

Southwest said that April 2021 operating revenues performed in line with expectations and represented a sequential increase compared with March 2021, driven by improvements in leisure passenger traffic and fares. Southwest says that it continues to experience improvements in leisure passenger demand and bookings for May and June 2021 travel, with expectations of improving passenger traffic and fares compared with April 2021. Based on current bookings, leisure fare levels in June 2021 are nearing June 2019 levels, said the airline, which expects those increases to continue. Southwest comments that it has also recently experienced “modest, consistent improvements” in business passenger