Well as I said as a travel agent who knows how pricing with airlines work and everything around it just doesn't make sense. And I've heard it today from other agents as well. It's not a furniture store who asks more for Italian furniture. I can try to explain my self but I won't have the right words. Let's start with saying that airlines never like to outright say "that plane is only good" also with elal changing aircrafts last minute every Monday and Thursday this will cause major chaos with customers when aircrafts will change. Basically airlines for that reason never sell you a ticket based on what kind of seats they will give you but rather by fare classes and for that reason. Now if J class will sell out quickly on the 787 flights and the price will be high because only Z class is available, that is a different story. UA never charged more for their flat bed seats tham their non flat beds to LAX. And for those and other reasons. Any travel agents disagree?
Yes. I disagree. Because they don't have first class anymore (which started at $6k+) they are likely to average out the price between the 2 cabins. They need to make up for the loss (though, I would note, that a very small percentage of F seats were sold out, and a large portion of those sold were for miles). Inventory change is not an issue, because they will be retrofitting their 777s in the near future. You need to realize, that since there are different fare classes currently in place on the 787, it's ok to charge different than on the the 777/747. If they sell 787 J for $3k, then what will they sell PE for, $1200? That's economy price. You don't have that fare class setup on the 777 (until they retrofit). It's no comparison to the UA 757 EWR - LAX or UA 84/90 where the cabins and fare classes stayed the same.
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