Hi!

I was just curious, as I was having a chat with my travel agent about upgrades. I mentioned sleeping, and how that is the main benefit of business class for me. He laughed, and said of course it isn’t, it’s the ‘free’ champagne! I laughed and said I had a 13 hour shift when I landed so my patients may disagree.

However, he did seem to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder too. He quoted me the upgrade price and I said ‘oh that’s actually cheaper than I thought’ and he scoffed and said ‘well, it depends who you are I suppose, it wouldn’t be cheaper if you saw my bank account!!?’ As someone who doesn’t fly premium cabins often and considers this a very big treat that I’ve worked extremely hard to pay for, he made me feel very uncomfortable. As if this privilege just fell on my lap or something. I won’t waste too much time worrying about it though!

I was curious though if other people value other things about flying premium and maybe it’s wasted on me!