Originally Posted by
rkkwan
Personally, I love to see PE on CO. But I'm not holding my breath. Nor am I convinced it's a revenue bonanza for those who offer it. If it is, you'll see SQ, CX and so on jumping into the fray early on. Both of those airlines compete with BA, VS or BR on a lot of routes, but they decide to stay put. [And even SQ has PE on the 345, they decide not to do it on the A380; and QF is only putting like 2 rows of seats on theirs.] The future international heavyweights like EK, QR, etc also are not introducing them.
The only thing I would offer is whether we are dealing with the same markets? To my mind, E+ is all about segmenting the market to maximize your revenue from each customer. I would think that the TATL market sees a lot of the folks flying in Y that probably can afford to (and will) pay the premium for E+, even if they can't/won't for J, and could support segmentation at the Y, E+, and J levels (I am not certain of the support for true international F). The Middle East, especially, with a much more stratified demographic picture, may find that a segmentation at Y, J, and pull-out-all-the-stops F makes a lot more sense. Just my two cents.