Short interest in Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 19.34M to 22.69M. This put 6.14% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 7.87M shares traded per day, it would take 2.88 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.