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Henry, Gilbert is probably more suited to wringing truth from these numbers than me; nevertheless, a couple of observations: I'm assuming that the July ridership, at 2.9 million is pretty much at capacity. Annualized that means around 35 million passengers would be the max? Also, I always figured that the Silver Service would be more heavily used in the winter than summer. These figures would suggest something else. Finally, the press release mentions the need to negotiate with 16 states to transfer service responsibilities; sounds like their deal closers will be busy.
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In June, Amtrak carried about 2.8 million passengers and that represented an average load factor of about 57.4%, so there's still plenty of room to grow ridership.
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Am thinking family vacation travel to Orlando provides much of the ridership during the summer. In most cases, other school holidays are no longer than two weeks. Because kids ride at a discount, revenues may be better in winter than the numbers imply.
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This is remarkable considering that ridership on half the LD trains is down slightly over 2012. Suggests that the potential for breaking even this record is there.
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