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Old Jun 9, 2012, 12:19 am
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docbert
 
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Originally Posted by Adelaide_Matthew
I would be interested to know what percentage of elites are on board an average QF flight vs an average AA flight - my suspicion is very high % on QF and very low on AA.
No idea for AA, but with UA it's not uncommon for over half the plane to be elites on popular routes - to the extent that UA now have 4 groups of "priority" boarding before they get to the plebs.

On other routes the number of elites can be as low as about 10 out of over 100, or even less...

(It's relatively easy to tell roughly how many elites based as the size of the First class upgrade list, which is available on their website)
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