That's the essence of the flawed copy-cat strategy, and what makes its implementation so bizarre. I'm largely protected by my PS status, but I'm fascinated by the craziness of it all and by QR's signature clumsiness in its implementation.

Introducing a low-key premium economy would be smart: business-lite on long-haul services is nuts. Bonkers.

If a meaningful, transparent, lower fare-class for the business cabin were introduced at a level likely to attract Y-J conversions and migration from competitors, downwards-shifting from higher QR fares would be inevitable.



But transparency is anathema to QR. So we are unlikely to get R fares and R-lite fares published: instead we'll see anecdotal analysis on the lines of the Paris-CDG observations. Smoke and mirrors.