Originally Posted by
Omniscient
“Most customers don’t want to put up with that crap”
Seriously? Have you seen the product by some of the legacy folk? Unless you’re up front on AA, I would rank that ride on par with Spirit or Frontier.
Correction....up front on an old Airways plane out of CLT is pretty bad too. And I hear Parker is cutting the legroom in first class as well.
Regression to the mean is already underway as legacy carriers try to adapt ULCC concepts for themselves, including shrinking seat pitch, credit card sales, checked bag fees etc. How much longer do you expect a carry on to be free at AA or UAL?
Have you looked at the difference in customers on a Spirit flight vs a Delta-AA-United flight? It’s very noticeable. Just go walk through the terminals even. There’s a market for it, and they are catering to it. Plenty of work for everybody.