Private enterprise marketers may like to fill up first class first by not making more economy class available.
Then if demand warrants it they may be able to find additional economy cars (if available) once first class is full.
First class passengers are obviously more profitable to the operating company.
Airlines are wonderful at playing these games with passengers.
Cheers DAA
scorpion <"Scorpion"@SE Net.com.au> wrote in article <34880f01.0@kastagir.senet.com.au>...
> Guess what? The IP departed on time out of Adelaide for Perth tonight (5
> Dec) at 6pm.
> Air Conditioning in Keswick Terminal is finally working!
> Apparently there is no Ecom. class seating left between
> Perth-Adelaide-Sydney until the New Year. Why does GSR not use the some
> of the spare sit-up cars that are sitting idle in the yard at Keswick
> getting new coats of paint courtesy of the local grafitti artists.
> On a slave labour issue can someone confirm that casuals working the
> Overland are only being paid for 5 hours in total for a return trip to
> Melb.??
> cya.....
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