<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SEA_Tigger:
I'd be shocked if people would spend 15,000 miles to fly First in UA up and down the West Coast as opposed to 5,000 on AS.
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So AS could eliminate First up and down the West Coast and suffer little.</font>
Those statements contradict each other. If AS eliminated first class, there'd be nothing to upgrade to.
The comparison is not between the current products of AS vs. UA. It's a comparison of AS without first class compared to UA.