Originally Posted by
jsloan
The price of F for domestic flights is often much lower than it is on intercontinental flights, even after accounting for flight time, and there is a lot more premium cabin inventory on the long-haul flights.
UA has gotten extremely good at selling discounted upgrades to economy passengers.
That makes sense. Good for United for being able to sell the premium cabin inventory. I knew that Delta became a lot better too at monetizing First Class inventory.
We fly with Alaska Airlines for the most part (we live in Seattle) and I don't think they currently make even the smallest effort to try to sell the first class seats. Always plenty of complimentary upgrades available; I have never seen a paying upgrade offer, and booking First Class usually has outrageous prices that make it hard to justify.