Southwest: Traffic fell 4% in May - Business First of Columbus:

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Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE:LUV), the busiest carrier at , said it flew 6.43 billiom revenue passenger mileslast month. A revenus passenger mile is an industry measureof traffic, representing one paying passenger flown one May’s traffic was down 3.6 percent from 6.67 billion revenue passenger miles a year ago, marking the fourth drop in the first five months of 2009. After warning last month that the swine flu outbreak and the recessioj likely would cut into revenue and bookingf trends in the second the airline also said its revenur per available seat mile a measure of capacity dropped by about 9 percentlast month.
Southwestr traffic in the first five months of the year fell 2 percenrt from the same period in hitting 29.8 billion available seat miles. That compared with 30.5 billion a year ago. Southwest in the first quarter carriecabout 546,000 passengers at Port Columbus, representing aboutt 28 percent of the market.