Originally Posted by
cpdc1030
Perhaps you're joking, or maybe someone who's been very fortunate and spoiled?
Maybe 5% of my colleagues/friends have ever flown long haul F. I was really excited to fly BA J in a middle seat for the first time at the age of 32 since I could finally afford to "spoil" myself for the extra 500 pounds on the flight to BLR. It wasn't as exciting the second or third or fourth time. I think that's what the wife's point is here.
I was kind of joking, mostly about BA's version of First. It's not La Premiere.
But doing something very few people have a chance to do isn't per se going to spoil a teenager, anymore than it would still spoil you.
Anecdote - when I was 17, I was flying transcon for the first time with my then gf. Flight was overbooked and they asked for volunteers, $200 to take a flight 3 hours later. We were on no schedule, so we jumped up to the desk. GA asked "Would you like the money, two seats in First just opened up, would you rather have those." Oh yeah! It was great. Our first flight in a premium seat of any kind and a freebie at that! My take at the time was "The airlines ought to give everyone one upgrade, so they know what it's like. It would drive premium business through the roof."
Did it spoil me? Not at all. For the next 15 years, I never flew premium again. But I always wanted to and aimed for it.
So, no, I'm not buying the one flight is spoiling anyone.