:D what a failure that A380 purchase was x50. Even with that, I was unable to really hurt my value, in a short time.

on the other hand in AM the routes like this were actually the most profitable, the long hauls I intended it for were the suck.

I'm wary of clicking on embedded links while on a work computer.

Some hospital food isn't all that bad, and repetitive eating doesn't really bother me. I made it through law school eating, for a relatively extended period of time, not much beyond rice and hot dogs for dinner and peanut butter straight out of a jar for lunch.

I'm guessing they want to grab revenue from those who have avoided buying a J ticket, even though their corporate policy would allow for it, knowing that they could get an EUA.

Another one of Smisek's fine choices.

As others have mentioned in the thread, the BF cabin to LIM used to go out near-empty on a regular basis, even during the roaring economic boom of the late 90s. That's why CO made LIM an EUA route in the first place. There was no demand for BF tickets to LIM then, and I doubt that the situation has improved appreciably since then. There just isn't a ton of business travel to Lima (at least, not enough, and not regularly enough, to support it as a true BF market).

If CO wants to make some additional revenue, Y/B/M EUAs in concert with a 24-Hour Rev-Up would probably generate more revenue, more consistently, than a once in a blue moon sale of an undiscounted BF ticket. [/Armchair QB]

Work today is beyond ****** up. :mad:

I suppose we'll see.

I suspect the motivation is that the route now has new seats and that was likely the cincher.

Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you, I was just posting my theory of why they chose to go this route.

I would be fine with your proposed way of handling the route. I doubt CO will adopt it since it would be an anomaly in the system.

The 73G has the range to do IAH-LIM... If loads don't pan out for the front cabin, I wonder if they'll bump it down to a 73G and offer EUA again.

Anyone think the change in LIM is due to it being a new market for the UA people?

I think it's too soon for that.

I had failed to consider your angle re: flat seats. That's as a good a reason as I can think of. Where else do 752's typically go that isn't mainland US that we might see this for?

To go from a 752 to a 73G says absolutely nothing good about the numbers of a given route. That's a cut of ~50 seats, no?

Yeah, it's ~50 seats, so maybe they'll just overbook the 752 and OpUp elites at the gate.

Doesn't that idea run in total contradiction to what they are trying to achieve? If The Wizard is right, and a guarantee of flat seats are the driver behind the change, running a ghetto EUA process at the gate does nothing to earn a revenue premium.

It encourages people to buy F/mileage upgrade if they want to ensure themselves a seat in the front. If the Y cabin isn't full then no opup.

CO could also guarantee flat seats to BOG, MGA, GUA, etc. Doesn't mean that a substantial number of customers will pay a premium for the seats if there is insufficient business-travel demand to the destination.

I don't see CO rushing to save EWR-BRS because 752s are switching to lie-flat. The change in amenities won't create demand that isn't there.

LIM is a leisure destination that derives its revenue from passengers paying silly-high fares from most markets ($750+ on the nonstops, and usually over $500, even on a "good deal").