Originally Posted by
poisson
Those of you flying business or first class on a regular basis, how do you do it?
Most coach class tickets are around $1000-1500 round trip to Europe. Business class is $3000, and first class is $5000-8000.
I'm assuming that most people do not pay cash and use miles or some other program?
Buy W fares to confirm GPUs at booking for TPAC.
Buy Z TATL fares.
Buy partner (LX/TG/LH/NH) F.
The BIS flying w/ the 13x RDMs...keeps me in J/F and then I also can get a pretty sweet chunk of miles for like a nice F bonus trip when I need.
Is UA outdated? Maybe, but also I just feel it has just become very routine and ordinary when you are flying it enough. It's a comfortable ride, I've never (knock on wood) had any major issue and the loyalty through MP for me pays off a nice dividend.
So yes, I'll take a boring blue/grey interior to sleep flying EWR-TXL when it means coming back in the nose on LH from FRA.