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Old Aug 25, 2011 | 9:07 pm
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Originally Posted by planetlonely
In mostly airlines they do tie ups suppose if a plane is remaining 23 seats then the other airline can transfer the passengers on other vacant plane.
This is simply not true.

Each airline has a break even load factor (BELF) number overall and generally will also have numbers for routes, aircraft types and other permutations. The US BTS publishes data on BELFs for US-based carriers. http://www.bts.gov/publications/spec...ml/entire.html
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