Seatload factors improved by more than two percentage points to 78%, even though capacity (measured by available seat kilometres) increased by a fifth.
His penny-pinching ways--yes, gate agents help load bags--have held cost per seat mile to 8.3 cents, versus 10.2 cents for chief regional rival Delta Air Lines.
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.