Busiest routes/flights
Aug 20, 2017, 3:22 am
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When airlines work on a basis of load factors of about 85%, including about 80% short/medium haul and about 87-88% long haul, all routes are basically very busy, and much of what you can observe is not about a room being busier or less busy but about the wrong planes being used for a given route/period.
Routes are also more or less busy in given periods. For instance, flights between CDG-NCE, ATH, TLV, JFK, or MEX in August will often be over-booked, but conversely, the same CDG-ATH, CDG-TLV, or CDG-MEX on a random mid-November Wednesday may often have empty seats. Conversely, on big summer weekends, ORY-BOD or ORY-MPL can be totally booked up, but out of season, I have sometimes had them with less than a third of seats taken.
Routes are also more or less busy in given periods. For instance, flights between CDG-NCE, ATH, TLV, JFK, or MEX in August will often be over-booked, but conversely, the same CDG-ATH, CDG-TLV, or CDG-MEX on a random mid-November Wednesday may often have empty seats. Conversely, on big summer weekends, ORY-BOD or ORY-MPL can be totally booked up, but out of season, I have sometimes had them with less than a third of seats taken.
Aug 20, 2017, 5:15 am
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When airlines work on a basis of load factors of about 85%, including about 80% short/medium haul and about 87-88% long haul, all routes are basically very busy, and much of what you can observe is not about a room being busier or less busy but about the wrong planes being used for a given route/period.
Routes are also more or less busy in given periods. For instance, flights between CDG-NCE, ATH, TLV, JFK, or MEX in August will often be over-booked, but conversely, the same CDG-ATH, CDG-TLV, or CDG-MEX on a random mid-November Wednesday may often have empty seats. Conversely, on big summer weekends, ORY-BOD or ORY-MPL can be totally booked up, but out of season, I have sometimes had them with less than a third of seats taken.
Routes are also more or less busy in given periods. For instance, flights between CDG-NCE, ATH, TLV, JFK, or MEX in August will often be over-booked, but conversely, the same CDG-ATH, CDG-TLV, or CDG-MEX on a random mid-November Wednesday may often have empty seats. Conversely, on big summer weekends, ORY-BOD or ORY-MPL can be totally booked up, but out of season, I have sometimes had them with less than a third of seats taken.
Aug 21, 2017, 1:45 am
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Frankly, this thread is going nowhere. All routes are busy, frequently overbooked, busier during summer versus winter for most of them, busier in the morning and evening for medium-haul routes, etc etc
