Originally Posted by
MrAndy1369
Makes no sense to me why UA won't match AA/DL/AS with this. UA might lose some competition on this, and UA should be working to keep its customers after what happened last year and all the negative PR fallout. My two cents.
I always assumed that part of the BE strategy was to make sure that fewer regular Y pax have to involuntarily check their bags. There's not enough room in the overhead for everyone, so why not offer some pax a discount not to use it? They'll be happy with the discount, the business travelers will be happy with their overhead bin space. Win-win.
Originally Posted by
jsloan
The entire point of these fares is not to sell them. They're teaser fares, designed to show up in the search engine and then UA hopes to be able to up-sell the customer from there.
Do you have any evidence for that, or do you mean "I'm not the target demographic of this product"?