<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by rdude:
Here's one way to think about it:
Airline JJ operates 99 flights. The load factors for each flight are as follows:
1, 2, 3 ... 97, 98, 99.
JJ's overall load factor is 50%. About 3/4 of JJ's passengers, however, fly on planes that are more full than average. About 1/2 of JJ's passengers fly on planes that are at least 70% full.
If Yogi Berra were contributing to this thread, he might say "nobody sees the empty United planes because nobody's on them!"</font>
Hmmm... and yet, and yet... If UA is still flying like JJ airlines, then they have planes with load factors of 1%, 2%, and 3%? I pray they don't.
I would think that UA's real-world schedule would start with oh, say, 15%, 23%, 31%, ... 97, 98, 99.
But in any case, I understand that because of positioning, there are certain flights that may fly "empty" in order to set up the planes for the next day's schedule. I just never get to be on them, I guess. <sniff>
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