Revenue passenger A
revenue passenger is someone who has paid a transport operator for her or his trip. That excludes non-paying passengers such as
airline employees flying on free or nearly-free passes, babies and
children who do not have a seat of their own, etc. However, passengers who paid for their trip with a
frequent-flyer program mileage award are usually included. This term is used in the transportation industry, in particular in
traffic measures such as revenue passenger kilometer (RPK) and
revenue passenger mile (RPM). The related concept of
revenue service refers to when a transit vehicle is providing public transportation and is available to carry passengers. It includes
fare-free service, but excludes service provided for specific activities such as school bus services and private charter bus service. However, the term does not include time spent on activities such as scheduled meal breaks, operator training, or maintenance testing. On long-distance buses and trains (and some planes), passengers may board and disembark at intermediate stops, in which case RPMs/RPKs have to be calculated for each segment if a careful total is needed. Revenue passenger miles can be considered the basic amount of "production" that an airline creates. The revenue passenger miles can be compared to the
available seat miles over an airline's system to determine the overall
passenger load factor. These measurements can further be used to measure unit revenues and unit costs.
No pax with "NO PAX" on its
destination sign In transportation, a "no pax" trip is a trip without passengers. For example, no-pax flights are
Air cargo,
ferry and positioning flights. Similarly, with a
public transit bus it can be used at the beginning and end of a driver's work shift to/from the bus terminal, or in the non-commute leg of a
commuter bus service. In such cases, the main display signs on the front and curbside of the bus typically display a message such as "no pax" or "out of service" (sometimes abbreviated as "O/S").
British railway passenger train categories In
British railway parlance, passenger, as well as being the end user of a service, is also a categorisation of the type of
rolling stock used. In the British case, there are several categories of
passenger train, which include: •
Express passenger, which constitutes long distance and high speed railway travel between major locations such as ports and cities. •
Semi-fast express passenger, a type of service that is high speed, though stops at selected destinations of high population density en route. •
Local passenger, the lowest category of British passenger train, which provides a service that stops at all stations between major destinations, for the benefit of local populations. == References ==