Originally Posted by
willy wombat
CC - is that 50's absolute or 50's %?
The flight started on the 12th June and operates four weekly (Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun), thus there were 11 days of operation in June. Their A330s have 292 seats (
source) thus there were 6,424 seats available (11*2*292). Assuming a 50:50 split of available seats EDI : DUB, there would be 3,212 seats available EDI<>PEK. The CAA data shows 2,793 'terminal passengers' on the EDI<>PEK route. The CAA defines a 'terminal passenger' as "
A terminal passenger is a passenger joining or leaving an aircraft at the reporting airport". Table 9 of the CAA data also shows 244 'transit' passengers at EDI in June 2018, compared to none in June 2017. The CAA defines a 'transit passenger' as "
A transit passenger is a passenger who arrives at and departs from a reporting airport on the same aircraft which is transiting the airport." I suspect (though don't know for certain) that many of those 244 are DUB<>PEK passengers who get off and get back on again at EDI. In which case, I think the 2,793 are passengers who started or ended an EDI<>PEK journey at EDI so the EDI<>PEK load factor would be about 87% (on the assumed 50:50 split of seats EDI : DUB).