Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
The truth is that a lot of people that travel very well for business get off the a/c and into a ten year old car to a humble house with a spouse/SO waiting with a fistful of bills that need to be paid.
However, I tend to FT is also full of flyers that either pay for their own travel or have restrictions placed on them by their employers and therefore are always "bargain hunting" whether its being able to use a SWU on a lower International fare (code) or a cheap ticket price.
Exactly! I, for one, resemble a number of these remarks. I'm self-employed, so I pay for my own business travel. Biz travel for me mainly consists of going to conferences so I can keep up with my field. I have to use cash, not miles, if I want to write off the expense, but I also have to keep these educational costs low enough that I don't go broke! So business travel for me is always in steerage (OK, that might sound a little elitist
).
Leisure travel, still often in coach--if I'm just flying from one end of the state to the other, the warm nuts are not enough to justify expenditure of miles or cash to move up. 10 hour flight to LHR or NRT? C starts looking pretty nice, but if I'm sitting there, it's because I used miles. (I admit I haven't tried F--I have found C sufficiently comfortable, personally.)