Originally Posted by
sbm12
The majority of elites might be in the middle (though I'm not completely convinced) but the majority of passengers are buying the cheapest tickets IMO. And there are a lot more customers than elites.
Not sure that is true for CO. This week, I was booked on CO408 and there were 35 folks in F (of which 29 were upgrades) and another 60+ in Y (on the upgrade standby list). Although clearly the entirely plane wasn't elite, about half the plane was. So at least in this instance, there were about as many elites as kettles.
I understand if I flew from CLE to DTW, that there would be less elites. but I am not so sure that kettles are so much more prolific than elites. YMMV.