Southwest Airlines January traffic decreases

Capacity for January 2012 decreased 0.7% to 9.94 billion available seat miles, compared to 10.01 billion available seat miles for January 2011. Revenue passengers carried for January 2012 decreased 2.6% to 7.99 million passengers, compared to 8.2 million passengers for January 2011. Load factor for January 2012 decreased 1.5 percentage points to 74.3%, compared to 75.8% for January 2011.