When industry analysts analyze an airline's profitability, one of the most important key performance indicators (KPIs), provides investors and observers with a large amount of insight into carrier ...

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 ...

Chris Tarry stresses that load factors are only a measure of capacity utilisation. Stabilisation has become a recurring theme among earning and traffic statements, based on passenger load factors ...

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 ...

Etihad Airways carried 2.0 million passengers in October 2025, a 28% increase compared with the same month last year.

SkyWest Inc.SKYW reported a 6.7% (10,500) year-over-year decline in block hours (a measure of aircraft utilization) to 145,300 in May 2018. The regional carrier, which remains focused on streamlining ...