Originally Posted by
jsloan
The original title was highly misleading, because most people aren't trying to buy a specific fare class anyway.
Originally Posted by
leftysauce
Also, even if most passengers don't look at the fare class, it still matters because like you said, it depends on the availability. The same price point went from "this is a standard fare" to " we are running a huge sale". I don't think it's fair to bank on the flight being empty/the fare class being widely available to not call this a fare increase
I'll add that it is in fact highly relevant to the audience of this forum, since the primary effect seems to be on those who want to buy a specific fare class (W) for upgrade purposes.
Originally Posted by
leftysauce
maybe it's a tactic to push us to buy PE outright
They've kind of already done that with the upgrade priority rules. The issue has traditionally been (lack of) R availability.