Originally Posted by
Slussen
Thanks for the reply. I just can't find any statistics relating income and airline class.
The income of those flying business class is all over the place. Keep in mind the following: there are people flying in premium cabins for work-paid trips where the income of the workers may not be all that high but work conditions are such that they fly business class; there are those using airline employee-related benefits to fly in premium cabins; there are people flying in premium cabins using frequent flyer points/miles; there are those who are upgraded for reasons of irregular operations; that there are those traveling on other people's money for even leisure trips; and there are those flying on discounted premium cabin fares of some sort or another.
Luxury hotels seem to have tighter socio-economic demographic profiles than scheduled common carriers' premium cabins.