Originally Posted by
Nostoodian
Actually I don't know and was just surmising and maybe that wasn't wise. I'm not an aviation route expert in anyway or form, in fact far from it. Apologies for making assumptions.
The Hainan PEK route may have some similarities to the MAN Saudi route before when Saudi were using 777 aircraft with low load factors but with a very healthy belly of cargo. I may also be wrong. I can imagine MAN - PEK being a healthy cargo route though for Hainan.
Let's also not forget that Hainan started off 4 weekly all year round, went up to 7 weekly, dropped down to 3 weekly in the winter and then dropped down to 4 weekly in the summer. I'm not sure of the winter schedule now. Is it still 3 weekly? From reading Scottie Dog's analysis reports the load factors don't appear to be very good compared year on year, that doesn't mean as you say that the route is underperforming in the eyes of Hainan.
Scottie Dog would you be able to work out an average load factor for the last two years of operations? This would be interesting to see.
Credit CAA:
2018 passengers 75536 sectors reported 372 average per flight 203 (CAA Punctuality stats for the sectors)
2017 passengers 90161 sectors reported 484 average per flight 186
To get the load factor I believe you would need a log of each aircraft operated as the A332 has two configs (214 or 260), the A333 two configs (292 & 303), the 788 C36/Y177 and the 789 C30/Y262 - Credit: Planespotters.net
I don't have the specific aircraft type operated although it would be available somewhere, perhaps
Scottie Dog can get the data.
Pete