Article: Airlines say passenger traffic up: Southwest reports an 8.7 percent increase last month from March 2005.

Byline: D.R. Stewart

Apr. 5--Southwest Airlines reported high-single-digit increases in passenger traffic in March, while American Airlines' traffic rose slightly and American Eagle posted double-digit increases compared with March 2005, company officials said Tuesday. At Southwest, the nation's leading discount carrier and the airline that operates the most flights at Tulsa International Airport, 8.34 million passengers boarded flights last month, an 8.7 percent increase from March 2005. Southwest flew 5.83 billion revenue passenger miles last month, an 11.4 percent increase from the same month last year, on a capacity increase of 8.7 percent. A revenue ...

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