Originally Posted by
pauly_long
This. When I flew UA, all seats forward of the exit row were E+, vs. the paltry 3-4 rows in Delta's fleet. If DL are committed to add additional rows of C+ as part of this exercise, then I think it's a good thing.
Indeed.
In fact, while Jeff Smisek originally intended to completely eliminate E+ whoen CO took over UA, he and his team soon discovered that E+ was a very useful tool that contributed positively to the bottom line.
And I think they took the correct approach, namely to creare E+ sections large enough so they could accommodate their elites (without resorting to this upgrade-style system) with enough left-over inventory that could be reliably upsold to kettles.
So they have enough inventory to keep elites happy and enough to provide a reliable source of upsell revenue.