In recent years, airlines have increased revenue by both expanding capacity and by selling a higher percentage of the seats available (load factor). Increased load factor is almost free money because ...

Load factor is a measure of capacity utilization. It indicates the percentage of total capacity that is utilized by an airline. Since airlines are capital intensive and have high fixed costs, the ...

Load factor is capacity utilization or the percentage of the total number of available seat miles (or ASM) occupied. Break-even load factor is the percentage of seats that have to be filled for the ...

DUBLIN, May 4 (Reuters) - Ryanair's (RYA.I), opens new tab load factor - a measure of how well an airline is filling available seats - rose above 90% for the first time since the beginning of the ...

Demand in August for air travel continued to increase, with the month's load factor at 86.2 percent, up 1.6 percentage points and a new high for the month, according to the latest data from the ...

Delta Air Lines will continue blocking off its middle seats through the end of the year, while increasing the maximum number of passengers allowed on each flight. Atlanta-based Delta will restrict the ...