how many seats need to be sold for flight to not cancel

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:34 pm

Arget wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:33 am
Duncan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:12 am with all those flights being cancelled I can see a big future in ships carrying passengers again.
Spoiler:
sorry my crystal ball is not working properly

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timmydownawell · Post by **timmydownawell** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 3:15 pm

A friend of mine flew Melbourne-Singapore in a Qantas A380 last week and she estimated it was only 40% full. But Qantas has announced they are grounding most of their A380s and re-routing SYD-SIN-LHR via Perth so they will be cramming everyone into 787s. And probably MEL-SIN-LHR as well at those numbers I guess.

monomial · Post by **monomial** » Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:12 pm

There is no simple answer to this question. Logistics often requires that planes be in specific places at specific times. So an airline may fly a nearly empty airplane if their only other option would be to deadhead a plane from another location to fill a route.

As a rule, an airline will cancel a flight if it costs them more to complete the flight than it does to cancel it. There is no simple calculation that can be made to translate that into passenger numbers. I have been on flights before with only 6 people because the airline required that plane for the following day and the flight simply couldn't be cancelled.

atst · Post by **atst** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:32 am

Don't forget the cargo the plane is carrying may also affect it

Singsling · Post by **Singsling** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:14 am

atst wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:32 am Don't forget the cargo the plane is carrying may also affect it

Especially if it's clutched beforehand.

SternAAlbifrons · Post by **SternAAlbifrons** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:44 am

Ban! ^^
(karma)

pczz · Post by **pczz** » Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:42 am

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:05 pm
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 11:33 am Frankly, nobody knows what the situation will be like in August. The virus is getting worse in Europe and the US. US citizens may well be be in lockdown by that time. There could be a global ban on non-essential travel. Impossible to say.
I have a flight booked for next month, but it's too soon to say if I will take it or not. The present status is wait and see.
I have a flight to Bangkok planned on Monday, with a return on Friday, and I don't know if I will be able to go, and I don't know if I will be able to come back if I do go.

My employer is considering buying an extra return ticket for Wednesday to cover for the risk of Cambodia closing its' borders for more nationalities (which would be useless, but common sense in Cambodia went down the drain last January already with respect to this virus issue).

The situation is so fluid now, it's hard to even predict what will happen tomorrow.

Gte a chinese passport. they wont ban them

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