Is Southwest's load factor picking up?

[DE727UPS]

Loads showing how many seats that can actually be occupied are left open, or loads of the whole plane that require guesswork? Just wondering because I may be flying standby soon if it looks easy enough to plan.

Actually, they show both, and caution you to look at number of seats "authorized", not number of seats available. No math.

 

[Crockrocket94]

You'll notice that the Capacity is set to 114, which is normally 175. Seats for sale (5) is the amount left so 109 people have booked not including the 3 Guestpasses or other.

 

[titansox]

For those trying to non rev on us we are artificially lowering our lids 10 days out. So if you get load information for a flight within 10 days it is giving you the accurate information.

 

[Skåning]

Over at the PNW regional “major” I flew for the first time in 9 weeks on Sunday.

A321 downgraded to a A320. We had 122 pax

I guess they block middle seats only when they feel like it.

 

[woodreau]

People are out flying. We had all of our middle seats filled in 5 of the 6 a320 flights (all 181 seats filled) I flew this weekend. People were even willing to plunk down their credit card to buy a Disposable mask For $3 when they were told they couldn’t fly without a mask. And then when they were told they didn’t have to wear their mask while eating or drinking, they plunked down Their credit Card again To buy food and non alcoholic beverages/water.

we may not be making money selling discounted fares, but none of that ancillary income is discounted. Still full price for bags, seat assignment, and buy on board items.