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Jun 11, 2016 | 10:23 am

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xenole

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Originally Posted by SoundMuppet

£2,700 is little over £50 a week. If it's really too much of a hardship to save that then I would suggest that flying in a premium cabin is not much of a priority for you.

Maybe so, but £50 a week is a lot to some people.

When you can pay £300-£400 for Y on a 6-9hr transatlantic flight, there's quite a difference between that and £2700 for most people.

I also wouldn't pay a premium for say BOS-LHR in order to get maybe 4hrs sleep (not that I can really sleep anyway and I'm usually not that bad in the morning). £400/hr is 2-3 nights in a nice hotel somewhere rather than an aircraft bed.

Added: Picked a random long weekend in Nov for LHR-JFK and got £2800 in J. Then did DUB-LHR-JFK and £1065. Considerable difference in this case!

Last edited by xenole; Jun 11, 2016 at 10:47 am

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