Originally Posted by
BrotherBranwell
You would have thought that airlines would want to attract those high yield pax who purchase full J - but most current FF programs don't recognise them at all.
There are significant benefits in being SE that the high yield pax don't get - IKK even in its watered down form being one of them, phone numbers for concierges being another. Why airlines would want to give those benefits to someone who spends $10K for dozens of flights - but not someone who spends $30K on a few flights seems bizarre.
Not a widely held view on FT I am sure, but does raise some interesting questions.
Until someone can post specific numbers of profit per seat of J vs. Y and domestic vs. international this is all speculation.
Maybe the person who spent $10k cost the airline $3k. and the person who spent $30k cost the airline $25k. Hmmmm. I know the generic flyertalk assumption is that international J is the only place airlines make money. But if that were true, AC wouldn't run 12 daily flights between YYC and YYZ, given that there are almost no international routes you wouldnt depart from YYC on or YVR. This isnt pointed at you, I just find it perplexing that such a central tenet of FT seems completely unfounded in actuals and based on community "wisdom" and assumption. (Meaning faith, really.)