HHI if you fly business or first on personal travel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make 150k plus 30k bonus and I fly first class internationally every time. Lol
I am a director in a medium size company.

Do you know what lol means?

They must be laughing at themselves for being a director in a medium sized company and making so little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make 150k plus 30k bonus and I fly first class internationally every time. Lol
I am a director in a medium size company.

Do you know what lol means?

They must be laughing at themselves for being a director in a medium sized company and making so little.

Yes!

[Anonymous]

I just this past weekend booked flights from Upstate NY to Maui for January.
My SO doesn't like long flights so we decided to stay a couple of days in LA both going out & coming back. She also strongly suggested we fly first class.
Round trip to LA, first class, was $1300. Seemed "reasonable" so I booked it. Didn't check the coach rate.
Round trip, LA to Maui 1st class, was $1400. Coach was $388. It's a 5 hour flight. I booked the coach tickets.
I just couldn't justify the up charge.
HHI last year was $800k. No kids, no bills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just this past weekend booked flights from Upstate NY to Maui for January.
My SO doesn't like long flights so we decided to stay a couple of days in LA both going out & coming back. She also strongly suggested we fly first class.
Round trip to LA, first class, was $1300. Seemed "reasonable" so I booked it. Didn't check the coach rate.
Round trip, LA to Maui 1st class, was $1400. Coach was $388. It's a 5 hour flight. I booked the coach tickets.
I just couldn't justify the up charge.
HHI last year was $800k. No kids, no bills.

Wow that was good deal for Hawaii trip.(minus the 1st class to LA)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I make 150k plus 30k bonus and I fly first class internationally every time. Lol
I am a director in a medium size company.

Do you know what lol means?

They must be laughing at themselves for being a director in a medium sized company and making so little.

How much you think director should make?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We fly business for our home leave every two years - family of four!

Yes but the bank or IMF pay for that..... It's not personal travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just this past weekend booked flights from Upstate NY to Maui for January.
My SO doesn't like long flights so we decided to stay a couple of days in LA both going out & coming back. She also strongly suggested we fly first class.
Round trip to LA, first class, was $1300. Seemed "reasonable" so I booked it. Didn't check the coach rate.
Round trip, LA to Maui 1st class, was $1400. Coach was $388. It's a 5 hour flight. I booked the coach tickets.
I just couldn't justify the up charge.
HHI last year was $800k. No kids, no bills.

Wow that was good deal for Hawaii trip.(minus the 1st class to LA)

Btw, the prices I quoted are per each ticket, not total for two.
Still didn't seem too bad though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just this past weekend booked flights from Upstate NY to Maui for January.
My SO doesn't like long flights so we decided to stay a couple of days in LA both going out & coming back. She also strongly suggested we fly first class.
Round trip to LA, first class, was $1300. Seemed "reasonable" so I booked it. Didn't check the coach rate.
Round trip, LA to Maui 1st class, was $1400. Coach was $388. It's a 5 hour flight. I booked the coach tickets.
I just couldn't justify the up charge.
HHI last year was $800k. No kids, no bills.

Wow that was good deal for Hawaii trip.(minus the 1st class to LA)

Btw, the prices I quoted are per each ticket, not total for two.
Still didn't seem too bad though.

I understood! We flu to Honolulu 2 years ago. Tickets were 1200 a piece. Coach!We paid with miles: 100k miles for 2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one pays to fly upgrades...points and status baby!

+1

I wouldn't pay for it out of pocket personally, but will upgrade with points.

HHI is $600k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just this past weekend booked flights from Upstate NY to Maui for January.
My SO doesn't like long flights so we decided to stay a couple of days in LA both going out & coming back. She also strongly suggested we fly first class.
Round trip to LA, first class, was $1300. Seemed "reasonable" so I booked it. Didn't check the coach rate.
Round trip, LA to Maui 1st class, was $1400. Coach was $388. It's a 5 hour flight. I booked the coach tickets.
I just couldn't justify the up charge.
HHI last year was $800k. No kids, no bills.

I am having trouble understanding why it was worth it for the 5 hour flight to LA but not the 5 hour flight to Hawaii. No criticism, just looking for what I missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just this past weekend booked flights from Upstate NY to Maui for January.
My SO doesn't like long flights so we decided to stay a couple of days in LA both going out & coming back. She also strongly suggested we fly first class.
Round trip to LA, first class, was $1300. Seemed "reasonable" so I booked it. Didn't check the coach rate.
Round trip, LA to Maui 1st class, was $1400. Coach was $388. It's a 5 hour flight. I booked the coach tickets.
I just couldn't justify the up charge.
HHI last year was $800k. No kids, no bills.

I am having trouble understanding why it was worth it for the 5 hour flight to LA but not the 5 hour flight to Hawaii. No criticism, just looking for what I missed.

SO wanted first class! So he managed to impressed her half way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I am having trouble understanding why it was worth it for the 5 hour flight to LA but not the 5 hour flight to Hawaii. No criticism, just looking for what I missed.

It's 7.5 hours, in the air, to LAX from Upstate NY for our flight. Five hours LAX to Maui.
You're right that it's not a huge difference, but it seemed, at that moment at least to me, like too much of a premium.

[Anonymous]

DH always flies Bc/first on international flights. 16k? r/t to Europe this summer vacation for his tix. DC and I flied couch with our nanny. DH is retired so HHI is 0. There were no upgrades available. It is much harder to find upgrades now than it use to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH always flies Bc/first on international flights. 16k? r/t to Europe this summer vacation for his tix. DC and I flied couch with our nanny. DH is retired so HHI is 0. There were no upgrades available. It is much harder to find upgrades now than it use to be.

Coach not couch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH always flies Bc/first on international flights. 16k? r/t to Europe this summer vacation for his tix. DC and I flied couch with our nanny. DH is retired so HHI is 0. There were no upgrades available. It is much harder to find upgrades now than it use to be.

Wait, he flies first class and you fly coach with your child and nanny??? That doesn't seem fair!