Originally Posted by
rickair7777
AS has never been that big on true premium customers.
They really rely more on a strong base of upper middle tier customers who are very loyal, and that loyalty is facilitated by upgrade opportunities. A full 1C section is probably mostly mileage plan upgrades.
I'd hazard that most of the true high rollers were already flying DAL anyway, at least the ones who's private jet doesn't have oceanic legs.
That's been the history anyway.
At some point last year I heard a figure thrown out that 75 percent of fc was being purchased outright. They acknowledged that this was a fairly big swing from how things were in the past.