Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
While the shorter TATL occasionally may at best get in the lower $4K and more often $6-8K and even $10K for J. No one would pay those fare to HNL.
He was talking west coast to Hawaii, not longhaul
While there may not be demand for 10K in J EWR-HNL< there may be for a true F experience
Originally Posted by
findark
I obviously can't produce UA's actual revenue numbers, but I guarantee that if people put the kind of money into the premium cabin on EWR-HNL that they do on SFO-NRT or ORD-FRA, United would be offering Polaris service instead of modding 772ERs with 32F as legacy IPTE seats so that they can make the trip to Hawaii from ORD/EWR/IAD.
You admit you cannot say for sure nobody would pay a premium. You need to stop thinking as an OPM traveler and remember, especially since the pandemic, the front cabins are largely being filled by people traveling on their own dime. That is a very different market than the business traveler and has a different set of expectation.
For Hawaii, the front cabins are nearly entirely filled by this type of flyer. Despite the rising prices for the front cabin, these seats continue to be filled, which means UA has not yet reached the price point where people will stop buying these seats