Continental Load Factors BRU

Post by **speedbird1** » 05 Jun 2007, 14:06

Has anyone else noticed that the B777's seem to be a thing of the past again. I have noticed that the 'downgrade' on Newark seems to be long term. Any info people?

Emirates

Skystef · Post by **Skystef** » 05 Jun 2007, 14:25

Starting from June 8, the 777 is again on the daily schedule.

Robin_Bamps · Post by **Robin_Bamps** » 05 Jun 2007, 14:28

The 764 is only temporary because there's a 772 in heavy maintenance.

Regards, Robin Bamps.

TWA · Post by **TWA** » 05 Jun 2007, 16:14

Anyway even with the B777, CO's loadfactor seems to be a lot higher than AA's or DL's on the BRU NYC route.

Just check the availability on their websites.

darwin · Post by **darwin** » 05 Jun 2007, 17:11

Landed this morning at BRU, coming from EWR on a CO 767-400. The plane had a loading rate of approx. 70%. Not sure whether this can be called a succes... On the other hand, their flight from BRU to EWR on May 26th (with the Triple 7) was overbooked ...

EBBR_Based · Post by **EBBR_Based** » 05 Jun 2007, 22:01

TWA wrote:Just check the availability on their websites.

You mean availability of seats on the seatmaps that are displayed on the airlines their websites?

That is absolutely not really an indication of how a flight is doing, as some airlines only release a small % of seats for advance selection, while other airlines release 70-80% (resulting in more availability of course). In addition to that, a flight that is almost fully booked can still have a lot of unassigned seats.

In case you were talking about availability displays through GDS, also this is absolutely not an indication. Airlines will always overbook longhaul flights, and in a lot of cases a booking class can be open in the GDS availability display but not be bookable in reality (due to advance purchase restrictions for example - this is often done with flexible tickets to allow passengers to change their booking in the same booking class, while at the same time that (cheaper) booking class is not available anymore for sale to protect the yield.