In November 2025, global air demand grew 5.7 percent YOY. Aerospace supply chain constraints led to a record load factor of 83.7 percent. North America faced challenges due to a U.S. government ...

Load factor is capacity utilization or the percentage of the total number of available seat miles (or ASM) occupied. Break-even load factor is the percentage of seats that have to be filled for the ...

Load factor is a measure of capacity utilization. It indicates the percentage of total capacity that is utilized by an airline. Since airlines are capital intensive and have high fixed costs, the ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for November 2025 global passenger demand with the following ...

African carriers recorded the strongest growth in international passenger demand in November 2025, with volumes rising 11.2% year-on-year. The figures ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- All of the major U.S. airlines reported their May traffic numbers last week, and those people looking for the silver lining could find it in increased load factors for most of the ...

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 ...

United Airlines' load factor came in above analyst predictions and at its highest level in at least six. Load factor measures the percentage of an airline's seating capacity that is filled with paying ...