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Old May 9, 2018, 10:23 pm
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Originally Posted by jdrtravel
At some point we're going to have to stop citing this one lone example from almost two decades ago as proof that a concept like this can never work. A tremendous amount has changed in the airline industry since this experiment. Also, JetBlue has done well with this exact model.

One of the big reasons that this did not work for AA was that, in that environment, the only thing that mattered was lowest fare. That's not as true anymore with greatly reduced competition and much more capacity control. Airlines are having to compete with customer experience.
They are, but that doesn't really include lower seat density in economy class. Because nearly every other carrier is going to 10-across on their 777s.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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