Originally Posted by
VickersVicount
Good start for UA IAD, but presumably thats the explanation for fairly significant drop in UA EWR
While that's true, EWR was twice-daily last year and is only daily this year - IAD, in effect, replaces one of the daily EWRs. Looking at things from UA's perspective, last June they carried 23,915 passengers (daily ORD, 2 daily EWR), whereas this June they carried 27,235 on their daily flights to IAD, EWR and ORD - an increase of 14%. The number of passengers on the EWR flights dropped by 39% even though capacity fell by 50%, hence increasing the load factor on the remaining daily flight.