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title: "What is PAX? | Benefit Systems"
description: "PAX is the industry abbreviation for passengers, used both for passenger volumes and for individual travellers in booking systems."
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# What is PAX?

PAX is the industry abbreviation for passengers, used both for passenger volumes and for individual travellers in booking systems.

Also called: Passenger count.

## How it works #

In statistics PAX denotes the traffic of an airport, a route or an airline and is the reference figure behind load factors and market shares. In booking and handling systems the same abbreviation means one individual traveller. Anyone reading industry numbers should check whether connecting passengers are counted twice.

## Not to be confused with #

PAX is not the same as the number of journeys: one traveller connecting through an airport appears more than once in its statistics.

## In German #

The German term is PAX. [German version of this term](/de/glossar/pax)

## Related terms #

- [Load factor](/en/glossary/load-factor): Load factor is the share of available seats that have been sold, measuring how full a flight or a network is.
- [Hub](/en/glossary/hub): A hub is an airport where an airline banks its flights in waves so that passengers from many origins can connect to many destinations.
- [Revenue management](/en/glossary/revenue-management): Revenue management is the process by which an airline distributes seats across price levels in order to maximise total revenue on a flight.

## Articles that use this term #

- [When is the best time to book a flight?](/en/knowledge/when-to-book)
- [How much connection time do you actually need?](/en/knowledge/connection-time)
- [How do you find out which aircraft you’ll get?](/en/knowledge/finding-your-aircraft)