This is very inaccurate. Premium seating, including first class, typically pays for the entire airplane with economy essentially getting a “free ride”. United Airlines, for example has 46 Polaris First-class seats in the front of their 767-300s. At roughly $6000 per seat, you’re talking over a quarter-million dollars of revenue in the first third of the airplane alone. The 22 business and 99 coach seats done even come close to making that much.
Most other major global airlines follow a similar business model. First and business pay for everything else
As a frequent United flyer I can assure you that the 6000 for Polaris seats is not they're typically priced. That would be what's called F fare, full first class fare and it would be adjusted for specific route and time, currently flights to mainland China are limited so some of those tickets have gone into the 10000s. But a lot of the seats are discounted fares which may be only 2k. Also there are no business seats on United, it's Polaris/Premium Economy/Economy+/Economy for long haul and United First/Economy+/Economy for domestic.
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u/DCS_Sport 4d ago
This is very inaccurate. Premium seating, including first class, typically pays for the entire airplane with economy essentially getting a “free ride”. United Airlines, for example has 46 Polaris First-class seats in the front of their 767-300s. At roughly $6000 per seat, you’re talking over a quarter-million dollars of revenue in the first third of the airplane alone. The 22 business and 99 coach seats done even come close to making that much.
Most other major global airlines follow a similar business model. First and business pay for everything else