Why is there such a difference in Airline Fares depending on seating?

Question

I flew to Singapore. RT fares: Coach $1500, Business Class $10,000. First Class $12,000.

Answer 1

Each class has a different level of service. For one, look at Singapore Airlines, one of the best in the industry for space, comfort, amenities and overall service. In First Class you get an ultra wide seat, about the size of 3 economy seats. It reclines into a bed, you have a flat screen tv, extra storage, a full service meal selection from top notch grades and quality of food. The bed lines are made with Goose Down and they even have a turn down service for you. I could go on and on, but go take a look for yourself on their website, its truely amazing.

Business Class, wide seats, not as wide as First, but lay completely flat as well, in seat entertainment and a full array of food selections as well, not as good as First.

Both cabins only have a few seats in each, you arent crammed in like sardines. The level of service is exponentially greater than coach/economy. On Virgin Atlantic, on the upper deck you have an entire pod to yourself.

Basically you are charged so much because look at #1 the type of seating you have, what comes in it etc, the kind of food you are served. For the amount of space you take up in that seat, you can sit 4 rows of people in coach, so essentially you are paying for the amount of space you are taking up on top of that if you think about it.

A lot of people who fly up in First and Business Class redeem milage for those seats, work for a company who will pay for them to fly 1st or business class or get upgraded because they are loyal.

But it doesnt really matter too much the airline, Business and First are always more expensive. You get much better service and amenities, Club Room priviledges etc. If you ever have the opportunity, its honestly the only way to travel.

Answer 2

answer from a french person, so sorry for the english...
In a plane you have different seating areas called cabin. So most of the time you have on long haul, first, biz and coach.
Now within each cabin, let say economy, you have different class of service, they are materialized by letters. for instance each airline has what we call a space control and loading control, which calculate how many seats you can have on a specific destination based on the season, day, and time of the day.
If you take the example of a Nice to Paris, on monday morning at 07h00, you will see most of the fares very expensive, because most of the travelers at this time are bizmen. so you will have very few seats at a good rate. Now if you take the same flight but on tuesday at 11h00 morning, the airline will have some problems to fill in the plane with bizmen, so they offer less expensive fares, with more restrictions. Based on that, and based on the restriction of the fare, the more restrictions you have the less expensive it will be, then you understand why so much difference.
within coach class you can have in between the least expensive and the most expensive at least 300pct difference.
then in between cabin I think you can understand why such a difference.

Answer 3

The more space you occupy the more you pay. You get more legroom etc in bussines class than in coach