WWW - good to see that you won't let the facts get in the way of a good Orange story, as always!
I haven't made these figures up - on scheduled services alone in March 2004, BA carried 2,948,000 passengers. It doesn't take a mathematical genius to work out that that's quite a few more than your 1,996,790 "earned seats". Just over 47% more in fact. And they did some charter work on top of that, but no need to count them...the numbers speak for themselves.
Toodle pip!