FLY777UAL From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4510 posts, RR: 3 Posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 1255 times:
Do people actually pay for the Premium Economy Cabins such as those found on British and Virgin, or are the majority of those passengers upgrades?
The cheapest I found for the June/July period between LAX and LHR was about $1,466, while the most expensive was upwards of $2,500 on BA (didn't check Virgin).
What I'm driving at is, do people set out specifically to find these types of fares? Are there actually that many passengers who would pay this much extra for the additional space, or are these cabins usually filled with frequent flyers from "regular" economy?
Leezyjet From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2001, 4041 posts, RR: 55 Reply 1, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1209 times:
On VS Premium Economy is quite often overbooked on some routes with people who have actually booked that class.
Sometimes we do have to u/g people from Y-W (thats just part and parcel of the overbooking system) and it's been known that we have had to u/g every booked premium pax into Upper to accomodate overbooked econ pax.
So Yes people do book premium and pay for the extra room, though on some routes (especially ex LGW) if they booked through VS Holidays, they pay an extra supplement to sit in Premium rather than buying a full fare premium ticket.
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UN_B732 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 4286 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 1197 times:
Premium economy is not worth it.... considering at least on my hops AFL is around $1900 in C to SVO.
-UN.
FLY777UAL From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4510 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 1139 times:
That being said, which airline offers the best premium economy product onboard?
Vs744 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2001, 677 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (9 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 1074 times:
I think its well worth paying the extra to upgrade to premium economy. I always fly this with Virgin if I can help it. You get more legroom, bigger seat and the service is a little better. Saying that, there is a HUGE step up to Upper Class which I experienced yesterday.
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