Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices

Re:Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Incre... by peteretep on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @04:05AM (#13307863)

    > Flying United to Europe you
    > either have crummy economy 
    > or rather expensive first

Mmm, actually it's economy or business, whatever brand name they're giving it — it'll come up as a business fare in flight booking systems. Genuine First is becoming rarer and rarer (excepting what US domestic routes describe as that), as more and more airlines follow Virgin Atlantic's original lead of a business class (very almost) as good as First, and no First. Even the ME3 are cutting back (Etihad's The Residence as an exception) — Qatar have a First Class cabin only on their A380, and have nixed it from their A350s, Dreamliners, 777s etc

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Re:Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Incre... by nemo44x on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:33PM (#13310925)

Yeah I was just using "First Class" as an enhanced level of service where you can expect a bed, decent food options served on actual plates and other niceties like a comfort kit and other things.

I think they called it "Business First" before they switched to "Polaris".

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Re:Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Incre... by peteretep on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:54PM (#13315544)

I guess my poorly worded answer was trying to highlight a further collapse in options at the high end.

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