Maintenance Driving Up Unit Costs At Southwest

Southwest's 0.23-cent year-over-year increase in first-quarter unit costs came half from fuel and half from maintenance, and the latter is by far the faster-growing at 23.4%, the carrier says in an SEC filing. The number of airframe inspections and the cost per inspection each increased under a new...

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