Originally Posted by
Often1
Full doesn't matter. Anybody can fill an aircraft if they price the ticket right.
What's up are AA's profits. While that isn't directly due to moving its FFP to a spend-based operation, that is part of it.
Anybody who thinks that AA suffered financially because a few people who pay attention to this stuff are miffed, sorely overestimates their value and underestimates their impact.
Correction: Anybody can fill an aircraft if they price the ticket WRONG,