Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I wonder whether the numbers showed that too many customers were defecting from D1 to PS? Part of the problem with these intermediate cabin offerings is positioning the product so that it doesn't cannibalize sales of higher cabin tickets (at higher prices, of course, and presumably with greater profitability). It might not be a good business model to make PS too nice.
Disagree on this. Premium Economy is often the most profitable cabin per square foot, as a Google search on this topic returns multiple articles (including the Wall Street Journal) confers.
Another article from Bloomberg notes that airlines are removing J seats to add PE seats:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...usiness-travel