Originally Posted by
Husky One
VS MCO April and May with the exception of Easter weekend has at least 200 seats avail and often nobody in J, very few in W - Yet still it’s cheaper to go through Dublin. Some flights have less than 100 on them. Yes they’ll always fill it in July and August but the rest of the time I very much doubt it
You are pulling random 'figures' out of thin air, none of which can be backed up by official statistics.
First of all, there are no April/May statistics for BFS given that this year is the first year VS is operating BFS-MCO throughout the entire summer season.
Secondly, your passenger 'figures' above suggest that the average load factor is 56% (200 free seats), with some flights as low as 22% (100 seats filled). As I've said above, there are no figures for BFS, but VS operate GLA-MCO and MAN-MCO, both flown solely by the B744. Official CAA statistics for 2017 are as follows;
April 2017
GLA-MCO: 72%
MAN-MCO: 74%
May 2017
GLA-MCO: 74%
MAN-MCO: 79%
This means that over the April/May period, VS flights from GLA had on average 133 empty seats, and just 105 empty seats on flights from MAN.