seating profiles

[brique]

Bit of a technical question on seating profiles which I hope a more exp player can answer:

I know that packing in the HD-Y seats to the max will cut your nominal range severely : I also notice that the system will restrict pax if weight limits/range go marginal on a route. You can still fly it but with fewer pax.

Question is this : when the system limits yr POB does it do it after calculating the LF or before? So, for example : do you get say a LF of 80% of yr theoretical max (162) = 128 want to fly  then the pax limit gets applied : to say a range-restricted 100pax : or do you get the LF percentage of the range-restricted lower limit, that is LF80% of the 100pax allowed to board?

Um.. I hope I explained it well enough... 

[Sami]

Umm...??

If you are limited to 100 pax on a route, that is the max you can sell, and LF stats are based on that figure (100). Load factor is only the end result, which is sold seats / available seats.

There is no "load factor" calculation here, it is just the end result of that is displayed on route stats. The system calculates number of seats you sell.

[brique]

thanks, I understand it now, LF is the result, not the cause, as it were.