Load factor Calc
Load Factor Calc is quite easy: number of physical seats compared with flown/booked (forcasting based on booked, flown if you do it for a flown period) head counts (adults and children). So some flights this month were rather empty due to positioning, and some flights were pretty full. Due to the volcano weekend the load factors will not be really useful. Load factors do not care about revenue or non-revenue or noshow or offloads. There are revenue calculations (per seat, per mile, per kilometer, per aircraft, etc.) which do use total revenue and revenue passengers - that gives you the Yield.
I expect to see a more or less normal load factor, but revenue will be down. Yield most probably as well and due to the higher secondary cost the profit will be much lower - if there's any at all.
Wrap up: if a passenger with a non-refundable and non-changeable ticket does not fly - it's not going to affect the load factor (hmm .. it affects it coz 1 pax less on board - so a lower load factor) - but unflown revenue.
@EISNN: yes of course you are right ... the positioning/dead head flights do not count in the calculation of the load unless they are flown based on the standard schedule - just without pax. Thus what I wrote above is not 100% correct and depends how the airlines do classify such a flight.
Last edited by rolibkk; 24th April 2010 at 06:58.