Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
There may be a fare war but for AA it will be BE all the way. No upgrades, 1/2 mileage and jammed into seat 32E for 8+ hours from DFW or PHX. I don't think so.
There’s a lot of factors at play here and you can’t look at any one single variable in a vacuum. AA wants people to pay the premium to go from BE to E, by making the spread too large, they know they will lose out on revenue and their R/Python/SAS models should price the markup accordingly.