Originally Posted by
rkkwan
I think TATL constitute the majority of traffic for VS; and also a big chunk for BA. So, I agree with you that TATL (in particular to London) will most likely work. But CO has no intention of providing a product on only parts of its network, and it's quite extreme in trying to make its fleet uniform. Plus overtime, TATL is constituting a lower and lower percentage of total CO international traffic.
That's another reason why we'll not see PE on CO in the foreseeable future.
[Another airline that has a very successful PE product is BR. But its main business is also a very uniform one - TPE-US - and it doesn't offer PE for intra-Asia routes.]
TPAC Carriers with E+: SQ, TG, NH, BR, NZ, QF (in the future, on the A380), UA (though UA's sucks when compared to the others, which are essentially wholly different products, marketed as such).
There's a market for it on long-hauls, and not just TATL. CO does provide a product on only a portion of its network (
i.e., BusinessFirst). There's a market for it, and CO provides it only on its widebodies and 757-200s serving long-haul routes. Likewise, there's ample evidence that there's a long-haul market for a dedicated Y+ cabin.