The last 3 posts sorta prove my point...
If you start getting fewer free upgrades, who are you going to go to - the other legacies are already worse for upgrades than US from what I read here.
Foreign travelers, if on paid tickets, aren't normally paying for all or even most of the FC seats. Otherwise ya'll wouldn't be getting all those upgrades.
I didn't say they'd eliminate FC. Just that every FC seat handed out free carries a cost and US seems to hand out a pretty high percentage of FC seats. Take one row of FC out, put a coach row in and the 1st two rows of coach (12 seats) become US' version of E+. They still have a minimum of 8 FC seats to sell and still give away any not sold or going to full Y fare purchasers.
Leave Envoy alone if they sell enough of the seats on average.
Jim