<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beef or Chicken?:
So you made $1.00 yesterday, and make $1.01 today. 
Let me hear something from you that doesn't reiterate the obvious, or suggests a little more insight beyond it.
Anybody can look at numbers. Not everybody knows what to do with them. Are you a business person or a bean-counter?
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Sorry Beef, but the numbers to date don't support the doomsday predictions by some CO naysayers.
The breakeven load factor is the percentage of seats that must be filled to cover expenses given the current fare mix. As mentioned previously, CO exceeded its breakeven LF number for July and August. Unless CO experienced unusually heavy pricing pressure during those months, the LFs indicate that CO has at least temporarily halted the post-9/11 tide of red ink.
While the final verdict must be withheld until we receive CO's Q2 2002 stats, the breakeven/actual load factor numbers suggest that CO fared well over the summer months.