Originally Posted by
EmailKid
The the idea of BE came along, and the price they felt they needed to charge for no frills customer remained the same, but the price that offered more than what ULCCs were offering, i.e. Spirit's et al Bare Fare was raised to what UA felt it should have been all along.
So how do you explain not allowing advance seat assignments, and not allowing pax to pay a fee for advance seat assignments? That is just plain irrational from a revenue perspective, unless your goal is to make the fare so unattractive that passengers will pay $20 more just to avoid it.
Originally Posted by
jsloan
BE is nothing but a fare increase, with conditions that disproportionately affect Premier members (no CPUs, no E+ access, no SDC).
It is exactly that. A particularly mean spirited one. And not only is it hard on the passengers, it makes the employees' (particularly the GAs) jobs harder.