Sounds like bs. First class ticket prices are like 10x the cost of economy. It seems like a plane is 2.5x the side of economy. So seating space alone the space effectiveness of 1 plane’s 1st class is equal to 5 planes’ economy.
Now service wise, that’s a whole thing altogether and highly depends on the airline. Some airlines give economy free coffee, tea etc whenever they want. Meaning while there is obviously a cost gap, it is not as major as some people may make it out to be.
The only way this diagram makes sense is if people don’t buy first class tickets. Then you have empty seating and a big waste of profits/expected revenue. That though, isn’t because the seats don’t make profit, it’s because airlines price them too high and people don’t buy them and instead go business or economy. That is the airlines fault.
So you’re saying it’s obviously more profitable because it costs 10x as much, but if the seats go empty (which they do) the price needs to be lowered to fill the seats. Airlines do this by providing perks, dicounts, upgrades etc and seats often still go empty in first class. Point is, maybe they aren’t actually getting 10x per seat, and this is ignoring that the seats aren’t the same size and don’t carry the same operating costs.
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u/SuperKrusher 4d ago
Sounds like bs. First class ticket prices are like 10x the cost of economy. It seems like a plane is 2.5x the side of economy. So seating space alone the space effectiveness of 1 plane’s 1st class is equal to 5 planes’ economy.
Now service wise, that’s a whole thing altogether and highly depends on the airline. Some airlines give economy free coffee, tea etc whenever they want. Meaning while there is obviously a cost gap, it is not as major as some people may make it out to be.
The only way this diagram makes sense is if people don’t buy first class tickets. Then you have empty seating and a big waste of profits/expected revenue. That though, isn’t because the seats don’t make profit, it’s because airlines price them too high and people don’t buy them and instead go business or economy. That is the airlines fault.