<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dbaker:
Month-to date earlybird performance is 64.7% with an October goal of 65.4%.
Not sure what it's used for, but Continental certainly tracks it.</font>
Just curious where you were able to dig up this statistic? Do all airlines track this?
I wonder what the payoff to the airlines is for sending the flight off early. Who needs to approve it- the ATCs? The airline ops people?