Originally Posted by
PVDtoDEL
Indeed. Which is why "average F fare" is a rather meaningless metric - it's a much better indicator of average stage length of revenue F tickets compared to premium cabin yields.
It is not even an indicator or average state length as they don't define how they are calculating the average. Is a $50 fee to upgrade at the gate counted in the average? Would the coach portion of the fare be added to the $50 to make it look higher? If 15 people are getting free upgrades and 1 person pays $179 for F, the average is actually only $11.19 in extra revenue per F seat that the F cabin on that flight generated. There are numerous ways to make it look better or worse to get whatever result you like. AS is also not selling $10,000 one way international flights like the legacies do so if AS had the same average as competitors, their stock price would be much higher that it has ever been.