Originally Posted by
minnyfly
For kicks let's say it a different way isolated on the revenue side of the equation. For the average UA flyer at the average UA stage length (1,460 mi), it means UA flyers paid $221.92 instead of $242.50 to travel from point A to point B, and they did it more reliably to boot. UA is a good deal.
Another way of interpreting the fare data is that a hundred million passengers were willing to pay, on average, $20 more to fly Delta than to fly United. What is it about the Delta vs. UA experience? What is UA doing to improve wage (specifically) and total cost productivity to be profitable with that headwind? These would be uncomfortable questions for UA execs.