A Good SWA Rumor

[Slug]

Desires

Like I said earlier, I too luv the good rumors, but I'll take any conjecture that comes my way. My one true desire though is to be half as witty/eloquent/verbally unchallenged as some of you on this board...........................like Pegasus, W8N, RightBettor.......

See ya in Dallas ------- sooner than later?




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[Bake]

I like good "rumor" news so I'm going to spread some more. Looks like 3rd quarter will be a 38.6 million dollar profit for LUV. This is what I come up with when I crunch the numbers listed on different financial sites. Hope it is better than that but given the times we live in I'm glad to see any profit.

Bake

 

[Aplus9]

".....the trend is bookings for 4th qtr are looking stronger than they were several weeks ago."


Chase,

Just wanted to let you know I was doing my part to get us some training classes. I have 2 round trips to take in October, and both are booked with SWA, of course. All of you can thank me later at Dallas.

 

[tredding@swa]

supporting SWA

SO far, I have earned 4 FREE Rapid Rewards tix from my recent patronage of my future employer!! (since Jan!!)

I figure that if my wife & I continue, we will be personally responsible for getting the load factors up to the point where SWA will have NO CHOICE but to start training crews, just to support our needs!

I just hope that the loss of revenue that occurs, after I start class, does not cause me to then create my own furlough!?!?!?

Keep those GREAT rumors rolling in - it's all I have to look forward to until the classes start up in ???? who knows when - looks as if the beer pool will be difficult to call as far as a winner goes... BUT, however, I am still good for the case of cold ones to whomever wins!!!!!

Hang in there fellow drown-proofing instructors! F A I T H will keep us going!

Regards - Tred

 

[chase]

Sept '02 results

Southwest Air Sept Traffic Rose 25.8%
Wednesday October 2, 9:20 am ET


DALLAS -(Dow Jones)- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV - News) September traffic rose 25.8% to 3.26 billion revenue passenger miles from 2.59 billion revenue passenger miles a year earlier. The Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath significantly hurt year-ago results.
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A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile.

In a press release Wednesday, the nation's sixth-largest airline said September load factor, or percentage of seats filled, rose to 56.8% from 53.4% the year before.

In September 2000, Southwest's traffic rose 15.9% to 3.3 billion revenue passenger miles. Load factor grew to 65.7% from 63.9% in September 1999.

In the third quarter, Southwest traffic increased 5.8% to 11.92 billion from 11.26 billion last year. Load factor fell to 67.7% from 69.1%.

For the first nine months of the year, Southwest recorded a 1.8% increase in revenue passenger miles to 34.31 billion from 33.71 billion last year. The company's load factor declined to 66.9% from 69.4%.


Commentary

Mixed news but generally upbeat. Another analyst came out Monday with a positive rating on SWA while lowering their rating on the airline industry as a whole. While we're not adding a gazillion flights, things are on an uptrend, not steep but fortunately up.

cheers