Originally Posted by
nonce
Dave, I think you are missing the point. First, let's imagine that it was actually possible to reach P1 by flying SYD-BNE on $120 red-e-deals. You would need 360 sectors to do this, or 180 return flights, or 1 flight a day for the entire year (minus 5 days to rest). Regardless of this minor detail your spend with QF will still be $43,200 a year. Are you saying that QF would be loosing money on this PAX over the whole year vs flying with that seat empty (given the probability of actually finding that many red-e-deals throughout the year, let alone one for the +1 as well)? If you +1 was with you on each flight that would be $86,400 a year to QF.
If someone is P1 , then there would no longer be any reason for that person to buy a $700 business class ticket to Brisbane. Encouraging the purchase of cheap fares is not a sensible business move imo. CLs are not a normal case; they can be those that themselves do little but have a lot of influence over spending
Also, the idea of offering free upgrades is a v bad idea imo and just leads to cabin devaluation ( other than mebe a cpl of oneway system upgrades a year ). Getting 3600 SCs is not that hard and have done it myself a couple of times due to having a cpl of US trips in a year and some domestic US travel