Thursday, October 27, 2016

Southwest CEO Gary Kelly: ‘Our growth is absolutely beginning to slow’

Southwest Airlines will rein in its growth in capacity from a gallop to a trot as the airline tries to turn around a key industry metric. Dallas-based Southwest’s (NYSE: LUV) shares dropped sharply Wednesday after the airline announced that its revenue generated from each seat flown a mile dropped 4.1 percent in the third quarter. Southwest projected that metric will fall 4 percent to 5 percent in the fourth quarter. Southwest will slow its 2017 available seat mile growth rate to less than 4…



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