Originally Posted by
UALOneKPlus
For example, I flew yesterday, changed my flight to go on an earlier flight, and was confirmed because I was on BS fare. If it was a regular B fare, there's no guarantee that the flight has any non BS seats and I could go stand by on it.
I'm not sure I'm following this logic. Are you saying that you might be able to get late seats for flights that would have sold out in the pre-BS days? If so, that's a great benefit indeed, but I'm not sure I believe it.
In the pre-BS days, consider a flight with only 15 seats left. Assume they were all full-fare. If the flight was going to sell out, there were 15 folks who were willing to pay full fare (say $299).
In the post-BS days, when the flight has only 15 seats left, they might be all BS fares (probably not, but let's keep it simple). All of those fares will be full fare + (say $319). With your logic, folks will say "too much" and try a different flight, leaving seats for you.
If the difference was $100, this might be true, but a difference of less than 10% wouldn't seem to matter.
Maybe I'm missing something....