Originally Posted by
craz
Its really just 1 of those we must wait and see items.
I cant see how the merged Carrier will beable to have say a 777 flying EWR-FRA with 2 cabins and IAD-FRA with 3
either CO will have to roll out E+ or they will need to remove it from UA as well as F/C/Y with UA and C/Y with CO.
too many people will stop flying UC if they paid for F only to be downgraded to C since there was an equipment swamp from an old UA to a CO plane. Or a A319 is being subed for a 739 and now only 8 FC seats
it might be possible say to keep 3 cabins TPAC and using only UA planes for All TPAC flights and using 2 cabins TATL for ALL flights but even that can mean problems
But there are numerous issues that will have to ironed out , could be they have been already but they just are withholding announcing them outright for now
I don't think it's too complex of an issue. Many global carriers do this sort of stuff. LH, BA, AF, etc. all have two and three cabin aircraft, and they vary them by destination.
It might not be EWR-FRA is 2-class and IAD-FRA is 3-class. It would probably be more like EWR-FRA is 3-class and EWR-TXL is 2-class. SYD 3-class, AKL 2-class; and so on.
The mentality shift is going to be massive for the legacy CO employees, though. CO was all about cookie-cutters and standardization (sort of like how WN was to an extent). The combined carrier will have a lot more complexity since the "one-size-fits-all" concept doesn't necessarily work everywhere. The challenge for the legacy CO staff will be to find ways to optimize while still allowing for and managing that complexity.