Originally Posted by
diver858
Still not buying it.
B6 is selling Mint for $599, I have seen AS F go for MUCH higher prices.
Yeah, and as noted upthread, Mint of course needs a larger premium for Mint than AS gets for F because Mint takes more space (but not twice as much space) compared to an AS F seat.
The fact that AS is asking much higher prices doesn't mean they're selling (m)any seats at those high prices, since part of their strategy is explicitly to upsell coach fares to elites chasing U space.
But based on the relatively-low premium B6 gets for Mint, I too am skeptical that it can totally trash yields. But the fare data are what they are....