Originally Posted by
ridefar
My pricing model was quite simply the best price I could find online for the same ticket on the same airline. The majority of the $80,000 I cited came from two F class return ZRH to JNB tickets--at the time LX was selling them for a truly ridiculous $18,000 each direction per person. No kidding. Not sure why you would pay those prices rather than chartering a small jet, but there you have it. (And I wouldn't even say that LX F was truly great. Their ground service certainly was, including the terminal at ZRH, but the in air product was not.)
Exactly, you wouldn't pay $36,000 roundtrip per person out of your pocket so that point is sort of moot. Anyway, you admitted that you travelled way too often. The point was that AE is a borderline fraud for *occassional* travelers. If you're a typical vacation traveler with 1 or 2 flights per year, you likely wont accumulate enough to claim an F ticket anyway.