Bob Fry wrote:
"gglave" == gglave writes:

gglave again. People ALWAYS complain about lack of movies or
gglave food or leg room, but have consistently shown that if push
gglave comes to shove they will always reject that in favour of a
gglave cheaper fare.

I wonder though, if at purchase time it was quite clear what extra
service they could buy ($10 for an inflight meal, $30 for 2 inches
more legroom, and so forth), maybe people would pay more.

In the case of MRTC, AA clearly advertised that it was offering more
space. However, if you are booking though an online search engine, all
you would see is that carrier A is charging $30 more than carrier B for
Economy service on a 737. Someone posted that the legacy carriers charge
a lot more. This is not generally true in markets where they compete
with low fare carriers. Although some people aren't convinced the
airlines are taking good surveys, this logically makes no sense. Why
would an airline purposely put the seats back in if it was more
profitable to leave them out and charge more?