How do people afford first class?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve flown first calls domestically and that’s usually pretty affordable, but I don’t understand how people can afford to fly first class on long international flights such as from DC to Dubai or California to Turkey. The price is often over $15,000 per person. Like how?? How do people afford this?!

Do you mean First class or Business class? These are two different classes. Very few people afford First class. It is for the upper upper rich. Some Airlines don't even offer First class seats anymore and have replaced them with Business class seats. Airlines that offer First class seats only something like 10 to 12 seats available, except Airlines like Emirates.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why people even do this – it’s like 10 hours of your life at most for a long flight. Is that worth $10,000?

I get spending a lot of money on a house where you spend the majority of your time, but first-class flights make no sense to me.

PP here who actually posted prices. I fly business class a lot, and I've never spent $10k or close to it. My next work trip to Asia came to about $4,500 and I'll be sitting in planes for a bit more than 20 hours. That's worth it productivity-wise to be able to work and rest well on the flights.

BUSINESS CLASS IS NOT FIRST CLASS. stop writing about business class, the post and question is about first class

Right but most US airlines no longer offer first. Call it what you want but generally on US based, even for international, the highest is some name for business

Not true. United offers first on their 777 and 787 aircraft. I have booked first and gone IAD to DEN, and other west coast flights. There are Pod seating (reclines to a bed) on these aircraft.

United calls it First Class on domestic flights only. An IAD-DEN flight on a 787 or 777 is usually a repositioning flight to get it from one hub to the other so it can do an international flight. They also do it IAD-SFO and EWR-SFO.

United does not offer international first class. Only business class.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get why people even do this – it’s like 10 hours of your life at most for a long flight. Is that worth $10,000?

I get spending a lot of money on a house where you spend the majority of your time, but first-class flights make no sense to me.

PP here who actually posted prices. I fly business class a lot, and I've never spent $10k or close to it. My next work trip to Asia came to about $4,500 and I'll be sitting in planes for a bit more than 20 hours. That's worth it productivity-wise to be able to work and rest well on the flights.

BUSINESS CLASS IS NOT FIRST CLASS. stop writing about business class, the post and question is about first class

Right but most US airlines no longer offer first. Call it what you want but generally on US based, even for international, the highest is some name for business

Not true. United offers first on their 777 and 787 aircraft. I have booked first and gone IAD to DEN, and other west coast flights. There are Pod seating (reclines to a bed) on these aircraft.

I think you should go refresh yourself on the definition of "most."

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I each come from generational wealth. We're very lucky.

You won’t keep it if you spend it on frivolity such as first class air fare. Yikes.

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DH and I were poor immigrants that are fortunate enough to have made it. We are in a position where we can spend on “frivolous things” if we want, and this is it. We only fly business internationally though; doesn’t make sense for domestic, where there really aren’t perks commensurate with the price tag.

ETA: We could afford to fly first class where offered, but again, there is not really enough by the way of benefit to justify it.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I each come from generational wealth. We're very lucky.

Check your privilege.

What do you mean by this? What should they do to check their privilege?

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I know two people that fly international first class all the time. One owns a business and makes crazy $$$. One married into a family that owns a car manufacturing company and works/travels around the world for the company.

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Anonymous wrote:DH and I each come from generational wealth. We're very lucky.

Check your privilege.

What do you mean by this? What should they do to check their privilege?

Exactly, they answered the OP’s question and acknowledged that they are lucky.