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WASHINGTON -- The major U.S. airlines were stuffed in August as many of them filled a record percentage of seats with paying passengers, but will the airlines have to go hungry by the end of September ...

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 ...

Cathay Pacific’s May-2025 passenger load factor increased by 4.4 percentage points year-on-year, while HK Express grew its seat capacity by 42.6% but recorded an 8.0 percentage point decline in load ...

Europe's seat capacity recovery as a percentage of 2019 levels remains in the narrow range of 86%-87% that it has occupied almost every week since late May-2022. Seat numbers in Europe are at 87.5% in ...

Summer is here. That means even more packed planes and sweltering airports. If you think that airline flights are much more crowded than they used to be, you're not wrong. The passenger load factor ...