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[quote user="matthewsaggie"] 1. I was on both #80 and #73 today- On #73 we had probaly a 90% load in 3 coaches coming into Charlotte. With turn over between Raleigh and Greensboro, in particular, we probaly had over 100% for the whole trip. 2. I have worked #79/80 for 4 years now and February is a very, very slow month on both #73/74 and #79/80. Come back in March when the CIAA and ACC tournements are in Charlotte. Extra cars those weeks.  3. Despite the comment about the bus, if there was not a train, these people would be driving, not on the 'hound or Carolina Trailways. 4. Many people in NC are looking forward to the mid-day train, including the Duke  Power execs. that were on #80 today to Raleigh, after all, we are the ones paying.  Sam can only speak for TX.    [/quote] I quoted figures from Amtrak's management and operating reports.  If you think that they are wrong, you should contact Amtrak and ask management to correct them.  I don't have to live in North Carolina to be able to read a financial and operating report. You have no idea whether the people on the train would drive, fly, or take a bus if the train did not exist.  Your view is speculation.  People have a tendency to generalize specific situations, i.e. projecting a high load factor on one day to every day or vice versa.  Again, the average load factor on the Piedmont in FY 2008 was 43.24 per cent.  The train carried an average of 90 passengers over at least one segment of the trip.  The average number of passengers on the Piedmont were approximately 55 per cent of the capacity of one U.S. Airways flight between Raleigh and Charlotte. What would happen to the load factor if the 11.1 cents subsidy per passenger mile, before interest and depreciation, was eliminated?  In other words, what would happen if the passengers were required to cover the train's operating costs through the fare box?  My guess is the load factor would drop dramatically.
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