Originally Posted by
yulred
The 'people won't pay' story implicitly suggests that if pax were willing to pay 2X more, AC would switch its planes to all Y+ and either buy more Y+ aircraft to cater to the people 100s of pax it can no longer carry in less dense configurations.
I bet they would.
As it stands right now, you can get to the gate, and the seat map has every non-preferred seat full, and 20 GTEs waiting for their preferred assignments.
If you can sell 5 square feet for $100 but can't sell 6 square feet for $120, you're going to continue down the 5 square foot seats.
Likewise with J. If it takes up three times the real estate, and you can only sell it for twice the price, you're not going to bother.