seatkilometers
Seatkilometers, or seat-kilometres, is a transportation metric that measures capacity by combining how many seats are available with how far they can travel. It is calculated by multiplying the number of seats by the distance covered, and is often used to describe potential or available capacity rather than actual passenger use. When a transportation service has multiple legs, seat-kilometres are summed across all legs.
In industry practice, seat-kilometres are commonly referred to as available seat-kilometres (ASK). This metric is contrasted
Example: A single aircraft with 180 seats operating a nonstop route of 2,000 kilometers yields 360,000 seat-kilometres
Seat-kilometres are useful for capacity planning, fleet and network analysis, and cost-per-kilometre calculations. However, as a