Just switched a route from and old 321-200 to a 321neo. Assuming moving the schedule from one plane to another wouldn't amend the pricing, why would I see a drop off in business class seats sold?
the LF in C could drop if C is bigger. So 10 seats sold of 10 is 100% LF, if the neo has 15 C seats then LF is now 66%.
More details needed... ;-)
Simon
And if both aircraft have the same number of business class seats and it's an actual drop in number, not just a percentage... maybe something else happened at the same time. Did a competitor increase their number of business class seats or lower their prices? (not that you'd really be able to tell).
I'm the only operator on the route, and the C class is the same size. Just an oddity I guess. Shame cos I was looking forward to the improvement in profit from the lower fuel consumption. :-(
Load factors vary for many (and no) reasons, so not much can be said about a small drop in load factor with the information you provided. To put it even simpler, the number of seats sold go up and down every day, every week, every month, etc. You can't expect the same number of seats sold every single day on every flight, can you? It's more about average over a period of time.
I do know the variaton can and does occur, but this paricular route had been 100% LF for a long time, then the drop exactly coincided with the change of plane, so just seemed curious.