When industry analysts analyze an airline's profitability, one of the most important key performance indicators (KPIs), provides investors and observers with a large amount of insight into carrier ...

Load factor is a measure of capacity utilization. It indicates the percentage of total capacity that is utilized by an airline. Since airlines are capital intensive and have high fixed costs, the ...

In recent years, airlines have increased revenue by both expanding capacity and by selling a higher percentage of the seats available (load factor). Increased load factor is almost free money because ...

Load factor is capacity utilization or the percentage of the total number of available seat miles (or ASM) occupied. Break-even load factor is the percentage of seats that have to be filled for the ...

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WASHINGTON, DC – The US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. WASHINGTON, DC – The US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of ...

Summer is here. That means even more packed planes and sweltering airports. If you think that airline flights are much more crowded than they used to be, you're not wrong. The passenger load factor ...