Your calculations are wrong!
Bit severe
Knock had 120 seats available to sell
I have no access to the exact stats which you appear to be quoting.
I am basing my calculations as guestimates based on the info in this thread.
B757 has typically 200 seats.
Knock filled 60% say 120
200/100*60 =120.
which is 85% of their allocation
Several posters claim this is the gospel figure so who am I to argue.
nd on a season average sold 102 seats of their allocation.
Out of a possible 120 seats they sold 102.
102/120 = 0.85. 0.85*100 =85%.
All is good in the world.
They had no ability to sell the remaining 80 seats which were allocated to Liverpool airport so Im failing to see your point on this.
They could not even sell 120 seats in the height of the boom so accessing the remainder of the aircraft is moot.
The problem is that the notional aircraft to be used (B757 or some future variant of the A320/B737 families) all have seating capacities of 180+.
102/180 = 0.57. 0.57*100= 57%.
Despite the claims there is no "pent up demand".
The pilgrimage later this year is a charter flight so is operated at no loss to the airline.
You can bet that this will be heralded as some kind of second coming but the numbers would appear to be against it.
Airlines are not charities.