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Old May 28, 2012, 9:46 am
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Originally Posted by mwix
Except...I really didn't like this. It actually infuriated me. As a result, I am booking three international business trips on other *A carriers with better product instead. Two business trips to Asia and one to Europe. That's around $20,000 of revenue right there. Deducting that incremental $106 makes a tidy sum of -$19,894 -- every year. Put that in your gross margin!
Just make sure these trips aren't on LH/US/AC/NH, otherwise UA gets 1/2 of it.

LX/SQ (FRA) to Europe and SQ/OZ/TG to and around Asia make nice options.
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