Originally Posted by
pinniped
I might revise it to say that 95+% of paid tickets are in a some sort of economy fare bucket.
The F/J cabins are then filled with...
- The 5% who buy in one of the business class fare buckets, most often with a corporate discount
- A tiny, almost immeasurable fraction of a percent who buy a true F fare bucket
- FF upgraders
- Nonrevs
- Award users
- People on YUP/QUP/HUP type fares
- Etc.
Plus there is a sizable percentage of commercial airliners in the air with an all-Y configuration to begin with.
Now that I think about it, it might only be 2 or 3 percent on a paid premium cabin ticket.
how many carriers servicing longhaul with all-Y?
considering only longhaul. (a 2 hour seattle-sf hop honestly it doesnt matter where one sits.)
id venture that at least half of Biz are rev. whether on discounted corporate rates or otherwise.
no point in considering how "most of the public" flies because "most of the public" arent hauled overseas for a work assignment.
its not an executive club either - long distance travel isnt a vacation.
the typical traveler is your average office joe just valued enough to be needed somewhere to get a task done.
one would be selling oneself short being content cooped up in the back on a ride from LAX to SYD thinking the front cabin is reserved for captains of the industry.