Bletchleyite
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...have identified a perennial problem with First Class - most people travel alone and like their own space, but of those who don't travel alone the "table for two" is most popular. So if you help one of those groups (splitting tables for two into two airline seats) you upset the other. And yet you've got the 2 side - nobody likes the double airline seats, but the tables for 4 are unpopular if there are 3 other people there.
So what options are there to improve things?
I suppose one option would be to have a 1+1 "Premium First" or to charge more for the 1 side? Or maybe have two classes, premium 1st (1+1) and premium standard (2+2 but more tables and 1st legroom)?
Another idea I thought of - could you have the 2 side instead set out as a herringbone style layout of single seats replacing the 2 side, as per the CS lounge car? You'd get more seats in that way than with 1+1?
Any more thoughts?
Avanti West Coast: Standard Premium
This would be terrible, this would reduce the amount of unreserved seats, I assume. It will (if it works) increase occupancy in 1st, as that's the point of it - to increase income from the First Class provision. Doesn't surprise me that current 1st users don't like it, but you pay for one...
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...have identified a perennial problem with First Class - most people travel alone and like their own space, but of those who don't travel alone the "table for two" is most popular. So if you help one of those groups (splitting tables for two into two airline seats) you upset the other. And yet you've got the 2 side - nobody likes the double airline seats, but the tables for 4 are unpopular if there are 3 other people there.
So what options are there to improve things?
I suppose one option would be to have a 1+1 "Premium First" or to charge more for the 1 side? Or maybe have two classes, premium 1st (1+1) and premium standard (2+2 but more tables and 1st legroom)?
Another idea I thought of - could you have the 2 side instead set out as a herringbone style layout of single seats replacing the 2 side, as per the CS lounge car? You'd get more seats in that way than with 1+1?
Any more thoughts?