A major airline is attempting to evaluate the effect of recent changes it has made in scheduling flights between New York City and Los Angeles. Data available are as follows: Month prior to schedule change there was 16 flights, and the Number of passengers were 8,795. Month after schedule change, the Number of Flights was 25, and the number of passengers was 15,653. Using passenger per flight as a productivity indicator, comment on the apparent effect of the schedule change.