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Apparently they're were about 40 million commercial flights per year pre-COVID. If we assume the average flight has 150 seats available (that may be too low?) t
by postingawayonhn 6y ago
Apparently they're were about 40 million commercial flights per year pre-COVID. If we assume the average flight has 150 seats available (that may be too low?) that's 6 billion seats available for sale each year.
- scrollaway 6y agoMost flights are return trips, so that 6bn seats corresponds to 3bn potential unique people. Then there's the percentage of multi-leg trips. (For example, on my most recent Athens-Istanbul-Stockholm return trip, I alone took 6 seats total). Finally, we have to consider the percentage of flights taken by people who fly more than once a year, which probably represents a majority of seats. All in all, it probably still lines up with 10%. It's shockingly high to me as well…