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Old Jan 22, 2018, 10:11 am
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Originally Posted by halls120
Since I don't see them reducing the Polaris footprint, that means fewer E+. On a long haul bird, I'm fine with that, although I recognize that I'm in the minority here.
i think they will want more seats on board rather than fewer. Plus they have to consider 2-4 P+ seat bookings are at risk to be filled via a downsell from Polaris. And adjust Polaris capacity accordingly.

It isn’t realistic to assume 100% of P+ bookings will be upsells from Y.

it will make GPUs more difficult, which for UA is probably a feature not a bug.

i too believe they will keep a reasonable size E+ cabin as those are easy margin boosters via E+ upgrades at $100-$200
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