Southwest manages a fleet of 548 jets, all of them variations of the Boeing 737. On average, each plane flies about 11 hours per day, making an average of six flights a day. The average age of each plane is 11.21 years.
The average one-way fare is $130.27, with an average passenger trip length of 885 miles. Those passengers consumed 63.5 million cans of soda, juices, and water, along with 87.6 million bags of peanuts.
Southwest's average passenger load factor (PLF), the ratio of how many miles passengers were carried to miles total passenger seats were carried, was 79.3 percent for 2010.
Yes, this post was indirectly prompted by the roof popping off a Southwest 737 today. Whatever, I still fly Southwest almost exclusively.
Stats and facts courtesy of Southwest.com
Thanks to moneyterms for the definition of PLF
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