Originally Posted by
A350Saltire
Very impressive. You can see why they are considering double daily.
Also worth noting given discussions up thread that the route to North America with the most pax carried in October was, yes you’ve guessed it - IAD (with 12,993 pax). EWR was 10,153 and JFK was 9,415.
Yet can we see recovery margins - Probably not
New York healthy enough sure can’t argue. Want to see New York through November as a stand-alone US point of entry/ exit .
Washington actually had similar high load factors prior to removal at Manchester, however abysmal recovery rates for both BMI and later United over the years . Not to discredit to Edinburgh right now.
And with the 764 one doesn’t need to look too deeply at the motives to flog many of the 203 economy seats very competitively especially in the US markers.
Remember COVID and it’s effects a significant amount of the domestic US clientele were holding massive amounts of redeemable vouchers and some holiday entitlement subject to personal contracts and that they had to use up this past summer.
These voucher redemptions are now largely spent both sides of the Atlantic today.
2022 is a difficult year to measure and base future projections imho.