Putting UA's short-term economics aside for a second, this is a bad precedent to set IMO, especially if they are still charging PS fares for non-flat bed seats. They might continue doing so once we've come out of the trough in demand to test if the market will support such high fares for a garbage hard product (at least the new F seats on the 319/320/73G/753s are slightly more comfortable and less tired). Hopefully the competition will keep them from doing so, though I imagine this could mark the end of PS on BOS-SFO.