Originally Posted by Localiser Green
With a daily flight by each carrier there is capacity for 300 inbound and outbound passengers per day (2 x 102 + 2 x 48), which equates to about 36,000 available seats over the period shown above, therefore average load is about 28% across the two carriers.
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The MAXjet CEO was recently quoted in a magazine article boasting initial load factors of 50%, but if the above figures and calcuation are right even if all the passengers flew on MAXjet they still wouldn't be anywhere near 50% loads.
I agree with the thrust of what you say, but should point out that Maxjet operates x6, so that takes out 204 seats a day from the capacity. Also, IIRC there were some operating breaks over Christmas that I can't estimate onto the back of my personal envelope.
But there were 120 days in those four months, so capacity was about (120 x 2 x 48) + (103 x 2 x 102) = 32,500 so overall average LF would have been about 31.2%.
If nobody flew on EOS, then Maxjet's average LF would have been about 10,171 / 21,012 = 48.4%.