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Old May 14, 2014, 9:55 am
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Blumie
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Originally Posted by seawolf
That's my point. Seems like AA made a conscious decision to no longer compete in economy by reduce capacity in coach by configuring the 321 the way they did. Less coach seats per flight than DL or UA.
By your logic, AA could "compete" for economy passengers by dramatically increasing capacity on this route. Sure, the fundamentals of economics assure that they'd have to drop prices as capacity increases, and thus they likely would be assured of losing money on every ticket sold, but they'd make it up in volume, right?!?!
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