<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Colo1K:
The simple fact is that they can't sell all of such business seats for $8500. That tells me that they are charging too much for them - which leads to empty C seats if they don't go to MP awards and upgrades, NRSAs, etc.
Perhaps the pricing model is the problem - and not the best customers who are allowed into upgraded seats that would otherwise be vacant.</font>
Agreed.
The entire model is broken and needs to be fixed. You CANNOT have the C class cabin filled people paying 5% of the full C class fare and expect to sell a signficant amount of C fares. To command that kind of price you need to supply a product which is hard to attain otherwise. This means severely restricting the upgrades, and significantly improving the luxury element of the C fare.
It sure as heck isn't the customers fault, they are going to find a cheap way of doing whatever it is they want to do.