Originally Posted by
RJDio
Keenly aware. So you eliminate 20 total seats and in the process add 4 premium seats. So now you make an inefficient airplane even more so (CASM).
How many of those extra 4 premium seats will be free upgrades? Only management will know the true gains (monetarily) or lack there of in the end.
Another factor in the revenue equation comes into play when a passenger buys a first class ticket on an RJ that connects to a mainline flight. How do you assign revenue for two flights on one ticket price? It would be easy to show that RJ as a huge money maker.