Passenger load factor

Passenger load factor, or load factor, measures the 3 See also

capacity utilization of public transport services like
airlines, passenger railways, and intercity bus services. Crush load
It is generally used to assess how eciently a transport
provider lls seats and generates fare revenue.
According to the International Air Transport Association, 4 References
the worldwide load factor for the passenger airline indus-
try during 2015 was 79.7%.[1] [1] Demand for Air Travel in 2015 Surges to Strongest Re-
sult in Five Years. International Air Transport Associa-
tion. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
1 Overview [2] How I can use the load factor of an indicator for the prof-
itability of an airline. Investopedia. Retrieved 12 March
Passenger load factor is an important parameter for the 2016.
assessment of the performance of any transport sys-
[3] Airline Economics. AV Jobs. Retrieved 12 March
tem. Almost all transport systems have high xed costs, 2016.
and these costs can only be recovered through selling
tickets.[2] Airlines often calculate a load factor at which
the airline will break even; this is called the break-even
load factor.[3] At a load factor lower than the break even
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level, the airline will lose money, and above will record a
prot. PLF (Passenger Load Factor)
The environmental performance of any transport mode
improves as the load factor increases. The weight of pas-
sengers is normally a small part of the total weight of
any transport vehicle, so increasing the number of pas-
sengers changes the emissions and fuel consumption to
only a small degree. As a vehicle is more highly loaded,
the fuel consumed per passenger drops, and fully loaded
transport vehicles can be very fuel ecient.
Very heavy loading of a transport vehicle are described as
a crush load. Crush loading is a very high level of loading
where passengers are crushed against one another.

2 Calculation example
Specically, the load factor is the dimensionless ratio of
passenger-kilometres travelled to seat-kilometres avail-
able. For example, say that on a particular day an air-
line makes 5 scheduled ights, each of which travels 200
kilometers and has 100 seats, and sells 60 tickets for each
ight. To calculate its load factor:
(5 f lights)(200 km/f light)(60 passengers)
(5 f lights)(200 km/f light)(100 seats) =
60,000 passengerkm
100,000 seatkm = 0.6 = 60%
Thus, during that day the airline ew 60,000 passenger-
kilometres and 100,000 seat-kilometres, for an overall
load factor of 60% (0.6).

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