Originally Posted by Flying Lawyer
But I always ask myself why the UA elites are so avid to fly on LH over the pond even in Eco. There is plenty of shiny UA metall flying over every day but there are so many preferring to fly on "cattle cars".
More E+ seats for me I suppose - I'm an avid boycotter of LH. Curiously I don't mind Southwest, especially when headed to Las Vegas.
To your question, another factor - LH cuts deals with consolidators for their connection routes to Asia (eg. India) so you're seeing a lot of travelers on LH flights purely for price reasons, connecting to another LH destination.
Same goes for UA flights within Asia, I see a lot of group tours (students, seniors) in UA E...I enquired once out of curiosity why not SQ or JAL/ANA (it was a SIN-NRT flight) and it was price/price/price...they didn't even have FF #s on their BPs...