If looking at how many seats are unavailable to reserve on tomorrow mornings EasyJet flight from Southend to Belfast is an accurate way to see the load factor, then the load is really low!
Shown below is the aircraft type, number of unavailable seats/total number of seats and the load factor for the first EasyJet flight out of the following 4 London airports tomorrow (Thursday 16th May 2013):
GATWICK:.....A319.....87/156.....55.8%
LUTON:.....A319.....103/156.....66.0%
SOUTHEND:.....A319.....49/156.....31.4%
STANSTED:.....A319.....110/156.....70.5%
This is based on the number of seats now unavailable to reserve for these flights. As these flights leave within a matter of hours from now, I'm sure virtually everyone if not all passengers have now checked-in and been allocated a seat. Therefore, we should by now be able to see the total number of people booked to travel on these flights tommorrow morning.
It would seem with Southend's load seeming significantly lower that perhaps the lack of an early morning rail link is damaging loads? If this is how it often looks then there's really no surprise that the frequency was reduced. Compare it to the first departures to Amsterdam though, where Southend seems to come out best!
GATWICK:.....A320.....98/180.....54.4%
LUTON:.....A320.....76/180.....42.2%
SOUTHEND:.....A319.....130/156.....83.3%
STANSTED:.....A319.....109/156.....69.9%
Last edited by FRatSTN; 15th May 2013 at 20:00.