Sorger took a page from his days as a pilot and applied a weight and balance equation to the design, shifting a larger percentage of the load toward the rear wheel, which improved both handling and stability dramatically.

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How many more people are we going to drop from the income tax rolls as we lean on a smaller and smaller slice of citizens to carry an ever greater percentage of the load, leaving the rest free to vote for tax increases?

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Seat load factors improved by more than two percentage points to 78%, even though capacity (measured by available seat kilometres) increased by a fifth.

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Mr. Megna disputed this, saying that the level of state debt to be issued over the next five years is expected to remain essentially flat, and that the budget doesn't increase the state's debt load, with total debt as a percentage of personal income expected to decline to 4.6% from 5.5% over the next five years.

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It can cover that if airfares and its load factor--industry jargon for the percentage of seats filled--return to pre-Sept. 11 levels.

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Kelly demanded better software to optimize the route network and bump up the load factor, industry-speak for the percentage of seats filled.

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In the first stage, Air Polonia wants to achieve a load factor - a profit benchmark showing the percentage of paying passengers per seat flown -- of above 40 percent on foreign flights and 70 percent on domestic routes.

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