Originally Posted by
sts603
And people on the BA board really need to stop assuming that what was true in 2010 for U.S. Airlines regarding the rate of paid F is true now. It isn't. Yes, there are some flights where most of F is upgraded but the rate of paid F traffic in the US is much higher than it was just a few years ago.
In my case, I'm actually not assuming anything because I got to see the figures for one of the US big 3. I can't give details but suffice to say that on some routes types that I mentioned (transcon/Hawaii), the immense majority of F seats were booked as such, on some shorter major business routes (think New York-Chicago and the like) it was about half, and on many of the regional routes, it was under 20%. Overall on the sample of routes that were discussed, it was well below 50% sold as F and my understanding is that this is also true of the networkwide average.