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Old Dec 3, 2024 | 7:17 pm
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Originally Posted by COTraveler123
Maybe this will bring some much needed competition for people who fly F. I flew United and American recently and their F product has gone downhill. They only offered snack baskets and on AA nothing was offered except for drinks. If Frontier prices their F appropriately it will be just as nice as AA and UA with how many cuts they have made to their services.
While I enjoyed F9's current "Business Bundle" or whatever they call their extra legroom seats with a blocked middle for what it was, your comments about AA/UA F service are slightly off. AA and UA have similar windows for hot meals in domestic F: flights of, I believe, 900+ miles. (I can vouch for flights as short as DEN-SMF being full meal flights on UA)

I will continue to buy F9 blocked middle seat or true first class if it's a better deal than AA/DL/UA F but that's not because I really care about getting a full meal on the ~1000 mile flights where I'm likely to consider F9.

Ultimately though, I'm not sure how I feel about this change by F9. A guaranteed empty middle seat in an extra-legroom row is possibly better than wider 2-2 F seats.
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