Furthermore, with the addition of Singapore on the Jakarta - Amsterdam service, Garuda Indonesia hopes to enhance
seat load factor and cargo volume on that particular route considering that Changi International Airport is one of the world's busiest airports, registering an average of 50 million passenger movements every year.
Not exact matches
But it also had trouble filling up all its
seats, with its consolidated
load factor falling 0.3 points to 81.3 % in March compared to a year earlier.
As shown in the chart above, the percentage of
seats filled — or the
load factor — for domestic flights has remained fairly flat at 85 percent in recent years, Bespoke said.
As a result, the airline's «
load factor» (passenger miles / available
seat miles) is at all - time highs.
Airlines across North America are posting record «
load factors» — the percentage of
seats filled on their flights — and are exploring ingenious ways to squeeze even more people on board.
Factor in the low
load lip, and the Honda Fit impresses even before you consider the «Magic
Seat» system.
It's a very tough business because the marginal cost of a
seat is practically nothing, you have these huge fixed costs and if you take one more person on board there's virtually no cost to it, so you're very tempted to sell that last
seat too cheap, and if you sell the last
seat too cheap it becomes the first
seat in a way... the hope is that they keep orders [of aircraft] in reasonable relationship to potential demand and lately they've been operating at 80 % [
load factors] for a while.
January capacity (available
seat kilometers or ASKs) rose 5.3 percent, and
load factor slipped half a percentage point to 79.6 percent.
Assuming a consistent
load factor of 80 %, the number of non-revenue
seats is expected to grow to 1.75 billion by 2034.
As a result, the industry's
load factor (i.e., percentage of
seats filled) rose to a record level of 80 percent globally and to 85 percent in the US.
Since it was the only American carrier with such a policy, and has a low
load factor or
seat occupancy rate (as noted by Air Canada), it would have been expected that morbidly obese people would have had a strong incentive to fly South West (i.e., high propensity).