Re: Re: Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eugene Coyle wrote:

> Today I was on a flight from Memphis to San Francisco.  An Airbus
> 320, must hold 180
> people or more. -- only 24 people in coach.  Everybody in coach
> could have had a
> sleep with a  three seat row each!!  I've taken this same flight --
> a year or so ago
> --when every seat was filled and people were turned away.  I haven't
> seen an empty
> plane like this in years and years -- maybe 10 years.  I knew the
> airlines were
> hurting but this shocked me.

Last month, every leg of the New York-Tokyo and Tokyo-Sydney route
was (miserably) packed to the gills. I'd be wrong to conclude from
that that the Pacific Rim is booming.

What are the industry load factors looking like?

Doug