{"id":1470,"date":"2011-03-08T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2011-03-17T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:11:55","slug":"business-has-been-booming-for-southwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/business-has-been-booming-for-southwest-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Business has been booming for Southwest Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1473\" title=\"Southwest\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-342x342.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Southwest_Airlines_logo.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The company has reported that 5.6 billion revenue passenger miles were  flown in February 2011 alone. This is a 13 percent increase from the  mere 5 billion RPMs that were flown in the same time period last year.  There was also an 8.6% increase in available seat miles from last  February&#8217;s 6.8 billion. February&#8217;s load factor stands at 76.9% which is  6% higher than last year&#8217;s 73.9%. This news may be comforting for those  in the airline industry as the passenger revenue per available seat mile  is estimated to have grown from eight to nine percent when compared to  that of last February.<\/p>\n<p>In the first two months of 2011, Southwest has seen a significant  increase in RPMs. So far there have been 11.9 billion, which is a 13.1  percent increase from last year&#8217;s 10.5. ASMs increased from 14.4 billion  to 15.5 billion and the YTD load factor has leaped from 72.9 to 76.4  percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company has reported that 5.6 billion revenue passenger miles were flown in February 2011 alone. This is a 13 percent increase from the mere 5 billion RPMs that were flown in the same time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[813,814],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-southwest-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}