<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FewMiles:
Waste? Their policy is not to give it away, thereby protecting (as best they can) the exclusivity of the product.</font>
Really? If you read a bit more about TG then you'll see that their top tiers are almost always upgraded for free even when there is plenty of space in their assigned cabin.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Somehow, a person who pounds the table and stamps his feet demanding the free ride he thinks he is entitled to (but is not, according to any reasonable observer) does not seem to me to be the type that will fly a paid fare in the premium cabin of the same airline in the future. Rather, such a person is more likely the type to wait around and pounce on the next fare error and play the same game. After all, they got away with a free ride once, why not try it again?</font>
I beg to differ! As I have posted in UA forum, I have PAID F flights planned on TG (also have flown PAID F flights as can be viewed in Trip Reports) and from what I understand, so does
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Your analogy is not accurate. The butcher can easily change the amount of sausage he makes, even on a day-to-day basis. When demand is higher, he makes more; when it is low, he makes less. He doesn't make the same amount, sell 15% of it and give away the remaining 85% for free. That just makes no sense. An airline, in contrast, is not able to expand or cut its capacity very easily because of high operating costs and the scheduled nature of its operations (the planes will pretty much have to fly regardless of how many paying pax are on board). But, the airline is similar in that it should not be giving away the product for free.</font>
Ok, maybe I was incorrect in mentioning a butcher since Down Under butchers sell sausages that are pre-made by various manufacturers (apart from their own ones, of course). But if I had a pile of bratwurst or knackwurst which was about to go off then I'd rather give it away for free than simply dump it in a garbage bin and then pay for it to be taken away by the garbage collectors.
Since planes will have to fly regardless how many pax they have on board then it might be a good idea to try to accommodate those few who believe that they can affor to fly in F-class.
BTW, it is nice to see that you have posted a comment to my posting since you chose to ignore my personal e-mail to you a while back about an AA matter! FWIW, your non-reply tipped me into leaving AA for UA which is a MUCH friendlier forum without flame-wars to the extent of AA forum.
Who knows? Maybe we can co-exist in the same world?