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Old Dec 11, 2013 | 10:13 am
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
What does this mean? Why do you think/hope that DL will increase upgrade inventory as it eliminates the requirement of paying a (much) higher fare to be upgrade eligible?

If DL has a better product, optimizing revenue could easily mean flying aircraft with more business class seats than DL's competitors use, especially given that DL doesn't do IFC.
MSP,

I don't think DL will increase upgrade inventory, that would be foolish. What I do hope is that DL will use un-sold BE seats as an opportunity to further drive revenue with HVCs either as upgrade fees, SWUs, Mileage Extraction, etc. vs. letting the cabins go out with a heavy non-rev load.

Paying customers first.
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