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It also comes down to sheer competition. If fewer and fewer F seats are out there on fewer and fewer carriers, then the number of people who will go out of the way to find the seats shrinks too.
Operating a subfleet of F class aircraft - and the service that goes with it - is costly and there are efforts required to find those seats which don't exist if there are fewer and fewer seats available. If the seats are concentrated in a handful of markets, the majority of people won't miss them.
The European airlines have a different calculation for keeping F seats because they have more competition from the Gulf carriers who offer them than do US airlines.
Operating a subfleet of F class aircraft - and the service that goes with it - is costly and there are efforts required to find those seats which don't exist if there are fewer and fewer seats available. If the seats are concentrated in a handful of markets, the majority of people won't miss them.
The European airlines have a different calculation for keeping F seats because they have more competition from the Gulf carriers who offer them than do US airlines.
