Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

How are you figuring jetBlue to be filling 85% of it's seats on this route?

I've looked at the latest 3 quarters on DOT's Consumer Airfare report and I'm unable to come up with anything near an 85% load factor for B6 on the OAK-FLL city-pair. Maybe I'm figuring it wrong?

Q3 2006 - an average of 282.60 passengers per day traveled between the two airports. B6's share was 63.44% or about 179 passengers per day (80 each way) 80 passengers in each direction divided by 150 seats on the plane comes out to about 53.3% of available seats filled.

Q4 2006 - an average of 306.30 passengers per day traveled between the two airports. B6's share was 63.34% or about 194 passengers per day (97 each way) 97 passengers in each direction divided by 150 seats on the plane comes out to about 64.7% of available seats filled.

Q1 2007 - an average of 330.44 passengers per day traveled between the two airports. B6's share was 66.03% or about 218 passengers per day (109 each way) 109 passengers in each direction divided by 150 seats on the plane comes out to about 72.66% of available seats filled.

Are additional seats being filled by folks flying from OAK to FLL to connect to somewhere else? It doesn't seem like FLL would be a logical connection point from someone flying from OAK, but maybe I'm wrong.

What am I missing here?

Mike