{"id":306279,"date":"2025-10-24T04:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-earnings-top-estimates-stock-slides\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:05:17","slug":"southwest-airlines-earnings-top-estimates-but-stock-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=306279","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Earnings Top Estimates But Stock Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> (NYSE: LUV) posted a third-quarter surprise profit that was accompanied by record revenues earlier today. However, shares are trading down around 7% given management&#8217;s more cautious fourth-quarter revenue outlook, demonstrating a classic example of rhetoric guiding the tape. The airline guided unit revenue growth of around 1-3%, while the company is also increasing capacity by around 6%. This serves as a clear warning that the recent government shutdown and other operational complications are eroding Southwest&#8217;s pricing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s performance highlighted continued challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1041,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306280,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306279\/revisions\/306280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}