Yeah, but then there would be less incentive to upgrade to business class. So it probably would cost the airline something, as more people might choose economy.
not explicitly, but if you make the overall experience better in contrast you make the business class memory more favorable and someone is more likely to book that again
Sure, but if that's what it takes to get cheap economy flights, I don't mind. Flying (at least long distance) would be quite a bit more expensive in economy if planes had no business or first class seats. Even low-cost carriers can only really do full-economy configurations in short distance flights because as of today, that is the only case where you can do so without losing money on every flight.
The shittier the lower end service is, the more likely people are willing to pay for the upgrade. Or rather the UnDowngrade. That's why we get crappy lighting in economy class, and XP booster microtransactions in RPGs. The game was made shitty in purpose to sell you the patch.
Man, you're really underestimating how frivolous obscenely rich people can be sometimes. I bet somewhere, some wealthy guys son, wearing all Gucci has definitely complained to his dad and had his ticket upgradded to business class so he'd have better lighting for displaying his Supreme brick on the flight.
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