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Old 7th Jan 2009, 21:47
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I'm very very pleased that EZY's load factor is inching up but that might be just a tad related to the capacity reductions made for the winter by parking aircraft up and offering acres of unpaid leave to its staff.
Now, I don't for one second doubt what you say and times are harder for EZY staff. Indeed this was borne out by a couple of your collegues I had a long chat with the other day.

What I don't understand is the following which, are YoY figures...

(MarketWatch) -- Low cost airline easyJet (UKZJ:
287.50, +5.00, +1.8%) said Wednesday that it carried 7.3% more passengers in December compared to a year earlier. The airline said passenger numbers rose to 3.1 million, from 2.9 million. Load factor, a measure of passengers against available seats, improved 3.3 percentage points to 82.3% from 78.9%
Honestly, this is not my usual dig WWW, but, as you are nearer to the EZY coal face than I am, I would genuinley like to know what is going on here, which does seem to be against all odds!

Have EZY just become more efficient?

And again,...this is not an argumentative post, but a genuine question!
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