This growth is taking sooooooo loooooooongggggggggg.... This next 500,000 is going to be a struggle I can tell.
Emirates fell short of my prediction in November and December (predicted 37357 at 9.5% growth, actual was 35837 for the 2 months), so for the year EK stands at:
Jan: 18,351 +18
Feb: 16,980 +21
Mar: 18,517 +5
Apr: 20,211 +22 (first month +20,000)
May: 14,382 +13
Jun: 14,693 -7
Jul: 18,726 +9
Aug: 20,831 +12
Sep: 19,675 +3
Oct: 17,534 -1
Nov: 17,761 +5
Dec: 18,808 +5
Total year: 216,469
595 pax per day (594.7), 297 pax per flight (297.35) which gives year end load factors of:
2 class 77W - (297.35/427) = 69.64%
3 class 77W(V1) - (297.35/346) = 85.94%
3 class 77W(V2) - (297.35/352) = 84.47%
So a rough average estimate would be that for 2014 the load factor was around: 77.42% ((85.205+69.64)/2)
I'm pretty impressed with that I must say.