Re: Re: Re: Distinguished Order of Miserabilists Update

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

DOT statistics on load factor are available only through Q1 of 2001.
Didn't look too bad through then.

    But the year to year comparison by months shows, for the six months
through July, that each month's load factor was lower than the
corresponding year earlier month.   But the data doesn't look like the
collapse that my empty flight suggested.

Gene Coyle

Doug Henwood wrote:

> 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