Originally Posted by mvoight
I don't see the comparison between selling food and giving away more space.
It's been tried. It didn't work. What has changed that would cause them to do it again? They are making money with fuller planes, why remove seats?
In what sense did AA's More Room Throughout Coach "not work"?
Did pax abandon the airline? Did AA lose money by charging the same price for a cabin of 6-12 fewer seats? Or did they charge A LOT more than the other airlines? Were the top executives not able to afford massive bonuses? Were AA's other features so below par that even more leg room couldn't make up for them?
I honestly don't know, because I haven't flown AA since the early 1980s.
It's not that I had anything against the airline. Personally, I would have flown AA just for its increased leg room...but they never offered the most direct routes to the places I wanted and needed to go.