Reply to Flying first/ business class

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "Flying first/ business class"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who only fly business must not travel very much or they enjoy lighting money on fire.  Tickets to biz class to Europe are 8-12k which is sometimes 11200 per ticket more than flying in economy.  Maybe a spouse flies so much you have a ton of points, but if you’re spending full freight 11200 more per person for a 7 hour flight you need to get an examination.  I, too, have paid out of pocket for business class tickets but would never be so frivolous.

How many of you business class only passengers delight in bragging about driving a 15 year old Camry because the millionaire next door book is your bible?[/quote]

Absolutely no one paying cash for business class seats subscribed to the Millionaire Next Door. It goes against everything the book stands for. Points and miles hacking would fit in though. However we are big on points and miles and still fly mostly economy just because  anything under 6-7 hours I don’t find BC worth unless it’s an overnight. That leaves us more points for even more trips. The extra points I would spend on 4 BC tickets would pay for 8 nights in a high end hotel. [/quote]

Except for the poster above paying 6k per ticket (which doesn’t even exist anymore) to go on business class but drives an 11 year old car - a thing that actually serves a valuable utility in your life and that will eventually break and need to be replaced, a cost that the poster has spent a high multiple of just buying airline tickets.  [/quote]

I just did a few searches for random sets of dates this July/August round trip direct from IAD to Paris, London and Madrid on United and found numerous options for each in the $4000.

Yes there are significantly higher exceptions for peak/last minute flights but most people are greatly exaggerating the average cost.[/quote]

I often fly peak because of my kids’ school and sports. I don’t want to go to Europe in August. I would go in June. Same for if we go to the Caribbean. We want to go right after Christmas, not mid  or end of January. I remember when my kids were younger, we may have flown back on a Monday instead of Sunday. The price of the ticket would me much cheaper if my kids missed one day of school. My oldest is now in high school so we don’t want him to miss the day even if it may be 5000 cheaper for our family of 5.

Before I had kids, I’m sure I would look at flights and it would matter less if I went in the beginning of May or mid April. We also have to pay peak surge spring break prices. [/quote]

July/August are peak to Europe. June prices are similar. Different PP, but just looked June 20-30 to Paris, business class is $4200 nonstop on United. Where/when are you going that it's double that?[/quote]

I was talking about winter break prices, not summer. We flew economy plus to Europe and business on the way back for $3k per person.

The extra 5k I mentioned on my post is $1k pp extra to fly back on a Sunday vs Monday where kids would miss a day of school. This is economy, not even first class. All I was saying was there is a big difference between peak and off peak.

We have a $2-3m HHI and we upgrade sometimes. I’m going to the west coast in a few weeks and decided to just do economy plus. It was still $1k. Maybe I will decide to upgrade. I’m fine watching a movie or two in economy plus for 5 hours.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics