Matt made an additional good point, not mentioned in your analysis here, that as a matter of what regular business travelers actually experience, unbundling has resulted in a race to the bottom due to contingent facts about how expense policies work and how the people who run expense departments are incentivized to (dis)approve upgrade c…
Matt made an additional good point, not mentioned in your analysis here, that as a matter of what regular business travelers actually experience, unbundling has resulted in a race to the bottom due to contingent facts about how expense policies work and how the people who run expense departments are incentivized to (dis)approve upgrade charges. If the basic ticket price entitled you to be lashed to a frame on the exterior of the aircraft, that's what your company would reimburse you for.
(Then 2020 happened and business travel seems to have mostly stopped -- no more days of traveling to have a meeting that could have been an email! -- but I guess that is a different issue.)
Matt made an additional good point, not mentioned in your analysis here, that as a matter of what regular business travelers actually experience, unbundling has resulted in a race to the bottom due to contingent facts about how expense policies work and how the people who run expense departments are incentivized to (dis)approve upgrade charges. If the basic ticket price entitled you to be lashed to a frame on the exterior of the aircraft, that's what your company would reimburse you for.
(Then 2020 happened and business travel seems to have mostly stopped -- no more days of traveling to have a meeting that could have been an email! -- but I guess that is a different issue.)