Singapore Airlines to Fly All Business Class from LA, NYC
Mar 4th, 2008 | By Jared BlankThe Wall Street Journal is reporting that in June Singapore Airlines will launch all-business class service between New York and Singapore and LA and Singapore. How will they accomplish this? Brilliantly — they’ll keep the same A340 aircraft they currently use and strip out the economy seats, leaving only 100 business class seats for the $8000 round trip flight. Demand for business class was outstripping supply of the seats, so they’ll optimize their revenues without having to launch an airline-within-an-airline. Extremely clever.
So what happens if you get into a line inappropriately and hold everyone up?
I get the feeling it’s gonna be like the “10 items or less” situation at the supermarket. Noone is getting tossed out of line for violating the rules.
[...] have already chimed in on the issue. Jared Blank thinks this will be a cash cow. The Cranky Flier is skeptical, calling it a “no-win,” and throwing some barbs at the [...]