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Old Jun 8, 2021 | 4:37 pm
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airbusfan87
 
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Cool How do you log Comfort+ / Main Cabin Extra / Economy Plus?

Hey folks, noob here.

Over many months of work going through random pictures taken from airplane windows, boarding pass screenshots, and with the help of a few folks here, I've logged every flight I've ever taken. You can check it out here.

My question: for those of you who log flights, how do you categorize extra legroom economy? Do you log as "Premium Economy" or "Economy Plus"?

Here are my for / against perspectives:

For:
  1. Most domestic routes are served in a 2 class config, and extra legroom economy cabins offer a separate boarding group, dedicated overhead bin space, and in the case of AA, free alcohol.
  2. Splitting out these cabins informs the model better of which class of service received

Against:
  1. The aforementioned are "soft products" only introduced in the past few years, and aren't a separate cabin
  2. Domestically, the only differentiation is the pitch, and not the width, amenities, or any other soft product, unlike international offerings
  3. If logging Comfort+ or Main Cabin Extra as Premium Economy, how do you differentiate this from international-config Delta Premium Select, American Premium Economy, or United Premium Plus?
    1. To this point, how are these not tallied in comparison to a domestic First Class config? When Flagship Business is a lie-flat pod in a 1-2-1 layout vs First Class in a 2-2 recliner layout, is there even reason to consider semantics when they don't mean anything anyway?

Light up this thread, fellow AvGeeks, and let me know how you track your travels.

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