Originally Posted by
1353513636
SFO-NRT. In retaliation for 2x ORD-NRT, SJC-NRT, and 2x JFK-NRT by ANA in the last year (just my guess)
You guess wrong. There is no "retaliation" with regards to ANA - UA shares the revenues and costs for those flights, and they are jointly scheduled by UA and NH.
Originally Posted by
Always Flyin
There is competition on the SYD route.
When there is competition, UA loses.
UA only has so many captive passengers who are stuck flying UA (either due to living in a fortress hub or due to corporate contracts).
UA can't fill a 744 with those captive passengers, so is downsizing the route to a smaller airplane.
It's all UA knows how to do these days. Well, other than just cut the route.
it's a massive upgrade in hard product for the majority of pax on the route - that might actually bring UA closer to being competitive.
All they've really done is cut out the majority of the upgrade capacity so they're left with a much higher percentage of paying passengers.