The budget airline cautiously added more flights, deployed. Seaport Global Securities analyst Daniel McKenzie notes that November bookings are shaping up to be 20% over October’s levels, “which tells us that grim Covid headlines are having less of an impact” compared with the summer. According to consumers posting reviews at ConsumerAffairs, Southwest Airlines came out as the clear winner in the first quarter of 2021. Some analysts argue the booking trends are better than expected, given the sharp rise in Covid-19 cases. United said in May that middle seats and certain aisle seats. Cash burn for the fourth quarter also looks slightly better at around $10 million a day. The main difference between them being that United is a full-service legacy carrier and Southwest is a no-frills low-cost airline. Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly, who testified unmasked at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, has since tested positive for the coronavirus, the airline said in a statement. Southwest is also whittling away at its cash burn rate, taking it down to $10 million a day in October from its prior $12 million outlook.
At the low end, that would be an improvement over its fourth-quarter capacity, down 40%. Southwest Airlines Call to review Covid-19 mask wearing aboard aircraft European shares tread water as investors eye ECB meeting US airlines seek end to. Southwest did issue a marginally improved outlook for January, expecting capacity to be down 35% to 40% from year-earlier levels.
But Southwest isn’t immune to Covid-related trends revenues are running at 60% to 65% of pre-pandemic levels, and the carrier is still operating at a loss. The overall rankings of the best and worst airlines during the coronavirus pandemic, include: Delta Air Lines. New cases are also soaring in parts of Europe, resulting in new lockdowns and travel restrictions.Ī domestic leisure-travel carrier, Southwest has fared better than airlines more heavily exposed to business and international travel-both taking far longer to recover, as Delta CEO Ed Bastian told Barron’s this week. New cases are averaging more than 120,000 a day in the U.S., spiking across much of the country in the last few weeks.
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Southwest issued a relatively strong third-quarter earnings report, but its latest update may be a sign of softening demand for travel as Covid-19 cases surge.
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