Originally Posted by
ExXB
Despite cries to the contrary price is the driving factor in choosing a seat for 98% of the passengers.
In that case, please explain the ability to sell a substantial proportion of the aircraft's capacity for C and F fares at what can be up to 10 times (or more) the typical Y fares being paid - and receiving exactly the same flight time and many other aspects.
And in the rest of the world, the ability to sustain fine dining restaurants where we could instead go to McDonalds, or the ability of car buyers to purchase what is often, when buying a car, the most expensive one they can afford.