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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m am so lol, but that is such a true description of the parade of horribles in economy. And the reason why I sometimes will pay for first or business even though my income and net worth are less than those above. And why it’s completely silly to have an income of seven figures and be flying overseas in economy. [/quote]

Agreed- [b]the alleged coach/economy plus- flying 1.1 million HHI poster above is either a troll or a fool[/b][/quote]

$1.1m poster here. I have a couple of comments:
(1) Based on my degrees and the line of business I am in, I am not a fool.
(2) You are right, you would never know how much money we have based on the cars that we drive and our house, but we are just not into material things. Ironically, we like to travel (coach  :D ).
(3) Maybe one of the reasons that our NW percentile matches our income percentile is because we actually make saving money a priority.[/quote]

I have been called an idiot for flying economy plus on DCUM. We have a $2m+ HHI. We fly economy plus now and flew economy plus at 1.1m and also 800k.

We recently went to Asia and I believe our original flights had cost around 15k for our family of 5. We did end up upgrading on the way home for 15k to be able to sleep. If we originally booked all business class, our trip would have costs 60k. Can we afford 60k for just flights for spring break? Yes, but we didn’t want to. We ended up splurging for flight back since Dh had to go to work and kids had school. Wanted to be able to sleep on plane.[/quote]

We have a high HHI and woud flinch at spending $60k for a family of 5 too. But why was it that high? That's $12k/person. I just priced flying round-trip to Tokyo leaving [i]next week[/i], and it's $7,500/person. Buying tickets well in advance it should be a good bit lower than that.[/quote]

We flew during spring break and went to two countries. I have friends who track flight prices. I don’t. All I know is we are always stuck paying peak prices for winter break, spring break, summer and long weekends like MLK and Presidents Day. Winter and spring break are often double or triple regular off speak prices.[/quote]

How far ahead do you plan? I've noticed the same during those periods, but only in teh rare cases we planned a month or two ahead instead of 10+ months ahead.[/quote]

We usually book flights 2-3 months in advance. We have booked as late as the week of and we often change our dates at the last minute.

DH has a very demanding job. I have 3 kids with various commitments.

We have no flights booked for summer yet. I haven’t looked at prices yet for summer flights.

Definitely do not plan 10+ months in advance. I don’t even know what activities or sports teams my kids will be on.

The times I have booked in advance, we always have conflicts. My kid missed a big science tournament and let his teammate down. Most recently another kid missed a tryout for a team he really wanted to be on and was mad at us for booking travel that week. [/quote]

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