How to Use load factor in a Sentence

load factor

noun

• Its load factor — the measure of how full its planes are — has been near 50% in recent days.
  — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2020
• Unknown, because load factors are but one part of the ticket price equation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2020
• Total increases depend on rate class, load factors and usage.
  — Aaron Gettinger, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• Walsh said yield growth throughout the year, as well as higher load factors, are helping to recoup the higher fuel costs.
  — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
• With industry load factors at about 85%, there aren’t enough seats to make up for the loss of business travelers.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• AirAsia is among Asian carriers enjoying high load factors and most of its planes are back in the air.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Alaska reported a 6% rise in available seat miles, while the load factor was down 290 bps, and yield remained flat.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• The performance of a power plant is measured by using the plant load factor (PLF).
  — Quartz, 23 Sep. 2022
• Southwest had the highest load factor on the route, with 91% of seats full; Frontier had the lowest, at 69%.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2023
• These include dividing the square footage by the occupant load factor listed in chapter 10 of the city’s building code.
  — Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• In October, the reason for the increase was because of a 90 percent load factor — most flights were full, the release said.
  — Gabrielle Russon, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• However, airline load factors, a measure of how full aircraft fly, had rebounded to pre-pandemic levels.
  — Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• At the same time load factor—a measure of flight occupancy—has increased to nearly 93% in the six months, pointing to strong travel demand.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 9 Nov. 2023
• Both carriers had strong load factors—a measure of how full their planes are running—of 94% and 90%, respectively.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 24 July 2024
• American’s load factor, or the average share of seats filled per plane, climbed to 55 percent last week from 15 percent in April.
  — Bloomberg News, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2020
• Emirates’ load factor, a measure of seats sold per plane, is roughly 78%, compared with the industry average of more than 80%.
  — Nicolas Parasie, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• The vehicle’s electric drive system can be monitored remotely and includes battery status and motor load factor.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
• Avelo’s load factor, or seat occupancy, also increased from 2024, according to the airline.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
• The four-engine A380 is only profitable with a high load factor, and only the world’s largest airports have facilities to handle the aircraft.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• Electra says its aircraft will also have a higher load factor for cargo and passengers than most eVTOL aircraft.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 June 2021
• Until recently, Cathay Pacific's load factor — meaning, the amount of seats full on its flights — was an anemic 32%, so the giveaway couldn't come at a better time.
  — Peter Greenberg, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2023
• And price analysts can spook easily and lower prices if there is a concern about a low load factor, which is the metric airlines keep an eye on to determine the percentage of available seats that could have been filled by passengers.
  — John Kell, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
• The company said its load factor, or percentage of seats filled with paying passengers, has been trending toward 50% in recent days after running 67% in the first two weeks of March.
  — Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
• Bookings for the July-to-September fourth quarter were 30% sold, easyJet's Jarvis said, while load factors, the portion of available seats filled by paying customers, were uncertain.
  — Shashwat Awasthi, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
• Of course, the catch is still that actual output will almost always be well short of that 1,386 MW, in contrast to a nuclear power station which, once turned on, will run almost constantly at high load factors for decades.
  — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017
• Airlines have spent 40 years optimizing themselves as operators—measured in RASM, CASM, load factor and yield.
  — Somit Goyal, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• As a result, America’s utilities operate at an average load factor — the ratio of demand to peak capacity — of just 53%, according to a recent analysis from Duke University.
  — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
• The International Air Transportation Association (IATA) reported that May saw a record load factor—the percentage of airline seats filled by paying passengers.
  — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025