Poor Load Factors????????
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Just carried my biggest ever load on a 737-300. 173 souls on board! That included 8 crew and 21 babies!! Without giving away to much it was inbound to the UK from 31/2 hrs away! It isn't all bad even with all the frightening news.
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Continental's CEO says their load factor has been just 37%. The full interview on the WSJ:
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB1001020755985895720.html
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB1001020755985895720.html
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Load factors in the last two weeks in the region of 80-100%. Many flights overbooked and SLF turning up and getting turned away.
It can't be all bad, but I bet our company (owned by a cheese-eating, wet footed mob)will somehow massage the figures. We shall see!!
Good to hear you're still about Paul K!!
It can't be all bad, but I bet our company (owned by a cheese-eating, wet footed mob)will somehow massage the figures. We shall see!!
Good to hear you're still about Paul K!!
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Over here in the US is where the loads seem to be down.
Did ATW - ORD - BOS last weekend and Boston was like a ghost town. Ok, this is probably one of the worst affected airports as the two WTC flights departed from here, but it does seem like they're suffering at the moment.
I'm doing ATW - ORD - LAX next week and we'll see if there's a noticable increase over last week.
I agree with what others say, I think the media aren't helping. Over here there is no news other than the terrible events of a couple of weeks ago, and a lot of channels are still pretty much reporting 'facts' constantly. Whilst I appreciate the sheer horror of what happened, I think that the media should cut down the amount of airtime dedicated to coverage. In my opinion, there just isn't enough happening at the moment to report on and so we're getting this ludicrious and damned annoying situation where the media are reporting any rumour or whisper, as fact and the whole thing has a severe negative effect on those watching.
I have pretty much stopped watching the news on TV, instead occasionally scanning the web news sites as I find these articles to be much more informative and balanced. I have also noticed a little more of an upbeat tone about some of the stories on the web news sites - MSNBC was running a couple of stories basically encouraging the US citizens to help the economy over here by spending and taking flights etc. I have yet to see a TV news article to do the same thing.
I did catch one TV news story tonight where the newscaster was interviewing a psychologist and asking how people could avoid feeling so down about the tragic events that have occured. Her suggestion was for everybody to stop watching the news! The newscaster failed to see the irony of her response and repeated her advice!!
Made me chuckle anyway!
Did ATW - ORD - BOS last weekend and Boston was like a ghost town. Ok, this is probably one of the worst affected airports as the two WTC flights departed from here, but it does seem like they're suffering at the moment.
I'm doing ATW - ORD - LAX next week and we'll see if there's a noticable increase over last week.
I agree with what others say, I think the media aren't helping. Over here there is no news other than the terrible events of a couple of weeks ago, and a lot of channels are still pretty much reporting 'facts' constantly. Whilst I appreciate the sheer horror of what happened, I think that the media should cut down the amount of airtime dedicated to coverage. In my opinion, there just isn't enough happening at the moment to report on and so we're getting this ludicrious and damned annoying situation where the media are reporting any rumour or whisper, as fact and the whole thing has a severe negative effect on those watching.
I have pretty much stopped watching the news on TV, instead occasionally scanning the web news sites as I find these articles to be much more informative and balanced. I have also noticed a little more of an upbeat tone about some of the stories on the web news sites - MSNBC was running a couple of stories basically encouraging the US citizens to help the economy over here by spending and taking flights etc. I have yet to see a TV news article to do the same thing.
I did catch one TV news story tonight where the newscaster was interviewing a psychologist and asking how people could avoid feeling so down about the tragic events that have occured. Her suggestion was for everybody to stop watching the news! The newscaster failed to see the irony of her response and repeated her advice!!
Made me chuckle anyway!
