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Old Apr 30, 2017, 12:30 pm
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ermintrude
 
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Originally Posted by threeoh
Maybe I'm their target audience?
Possibly I understand your logic but in reality I think the answer is no. What I and many others believe is that UA's BE is really just a sneaky way of upfaring on every fare above N. I read somewhere that the vast majority of the predicted revenue increase from BE will be due to the upfaring.

UA's BE is such an unattractive product and for the most part uncompetitive with the ULCCS, I really don't think they expect people to voluntarily buy it.
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