Airlines Disclose Record Breaking Load Factors in 2012

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Two of the most significant airlines of Canada have announced to have observed record-breaking load factors last year, as they claim their flights carried considerably more average passengers than ever before.

Montreal-based Air Canada declared that its monthly load factor has reached exactly 82.1 percent during December, whereas the overall percentage for 2012 was 82.7 percent. This means that both figures were elevated by 1.1 percentage points, which represents overall record-breaking annual figure of all-times for Canada’s biggest airline. Load factor is an important metric which studies the percentage of passengers-occupied seats during each flight. Air Canada previously declared to have enhanced its seating capacity by 1.8 percent in 2012, hence there were already more seats available this year. Though still the number of passengers travelling inflated even more than that, i.e. 3.2 percent in December, making the load factor jump anyhow. Air Canada recorded revenue gain of 12.6 billion by passenger miles in 2012.

On the other hand, Porter Airlines, small rival of Air Canada, declares to have served 2.45 million passengers in 2012, i.e. an increase of  15 percent compared to 2011. Whereas Toronto-based Porter announced that its load factor of 2012 was increased by 62 percent to 61.7 per cent. December alone saw an increase of 3.5 in revenue passenger miles to 77.8 million, while the load factor of the month was 64.3 per cent. Third major Canadian airline, i.e. Calgary-based WestJet, will reveal its load factor later on Monday.

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