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Old Sep 8, 2014 | 6:45 pm
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Originally Posted by winnipegrev
I'm happy with AC's config vs. UA's but I wonder how successful AC will be charging fares necessary for the better product. They need to charge 20% higher than UA on base fares to compete on revenue/sq. foot equally... e.g. $3000 UA or $3600 AC. Pretty big price difference for many.

I suspect it is one reason there are only 20J seats. Can probably find enough people willing to pay more.
I would say not very successful due to the JV TATL (though they could restrict availability in order to extract higher fares.)
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