Inventory control holding back on seats in C or F for upgrading was great during the boom as many of us had the flexibility to change revenue C or F ticket to earlier or later flights (or change dates) and actually get a seat. However other than upgraders today I see nowhere near C or F filling (with revenue C/F paxs), and on most flight even Y has extra seats. If UA does contemplate removing some premium seats (or two class cabins) I don't see the benefit on their bottom line unless they can persuade us from a price point of view to pay for a CONFIRMED C seat at a D price or ensure Economy+ is rolled out to the entire fleet. I wonder if there is some other motive behind UA changing the SWU policy? Maybe a more consistent D fare rollout??

Removing pax's to help yield and adding seats to help revenue is great... WHEN YOU KNOW you can fill the plane. Right now this is just not the case. So many of that are filled with low yield pax's would otherwise be empty if UA wasn't agressive on it's fares right now...

[This message has been edited by NickP 1K (edited 01-25-2003).]