Originally Posted by
Dobbo_Dobbo
One Roverman and one or two others might find interesting.
I hadn't realised until recently that IAH publish figures that can be used to assess the overall loads on SQ51/52.
There is a slight discrepancy between the IAH numbers and the UK's CAA numbers which is likely to be because one rotation took off from IAH in May and landed at MAN in June (or vice versa). These are highlighted below.
June 2017
21 rotations, 42 sectors.
IAH-SIN: 3,035 - 72 ave per sector.
MAN-SIN: 6,632 - 158 ave per sector
MAN IAH: 6,199 - 148 ave per sector
Note: IAH figures have IAH-MAN as 141 ave per sector.
This means the following:
SIN-MAN: 230 av per sector, 91% LF
MAN-IAH: 220 av per sector, 87% LG
If you take IAH figures, MAN-IAH is 213 per sector, 84% LF
For comparison, SQ's network average is 80% and the passenger break even load factor is 82.2%.
Compared to when the route was via DME, the MAN-IAH sectors on cargo and passenger show around a 100% improvement (i.e. They have doubled).
All in all, SQ can probably be rather pleased with the decision as this route looks to be trending in the right direction overall.
Wow, if SIN-MAN is averaging 230 per flight there can be hardly anyone flying SIN-IAH as there are only 23 seats spare! Everyone gets off at MAN and the aircraft fills up again with new pax heading for IAH and a handful of transits going the full trip. Becomes a bit of a strange route for SQ then as SIN-MAN is clearly strong, but IAH not, and questionable whether MAN really needs a tag now that it's non-stop with the right-sized aircraft. IAH is sustained by MAN and not SIN.