{"id":336749,"date":"2025-12-25T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-profits-fall-over-40-percent-stock-gains-more-any-other-airline-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:01:17","slug":"southwest-airlines-profits-fall-over-40-while-stock-gains-more-than-any-other-airline-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=336749","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines\u2019 Profits Fall Over 40% While Stock Gains More Than Any Other Airline In 2025"},"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) ended 2025 in what many would refer to as an investor&#8217;s paradox. Profits have declined sharply, and yet shares are trading at the highest relative returns of any major US airline. Through the first nine months of 2025, Southwest&#8217;s profits fell around 42% versus 2024, all while the stock gained roughly 24% year-to-date, narrowly beating out both Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) and United Airlines (NYSE: UAL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has significantly outperformed expectations.<\/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-336749","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\/336749","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=336749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336750,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336749\/revisions\/336750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}