Originally Posted by
Antarius
Or AA is undercutting themselves with an uncapped BE. In the last several months, in my experience, Group 9 is a sizable number of people on the aircraft. That cannot be helping their margins.
I also think that fares that at the onset of BE would have been Main Cabin (like what the OP pointed out) are now coded as BE. AA is saying if you want a seat selection, full credit of miles, and the ability to change flights (with a fee of course) pay up. But yeah if flyers are not opting for that (and the occasional flyer probably wouldn't) then yes AA is probably being forced into more BE sales.