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Aug 28, 2019, 10:48 am

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Originally Posted by Gig103

I've heard friends say the same thing - only on other people's money - but I can't go back. I don't think of it as a price differential, but the overall price. I shop for deals, fly midweek, and use positioning flights. I've paid as little as $2000/person for business class out of LAX when it was $5500 out of PHX, but I admit $3000 is more common a 'deal' price. As my friend points out, that's the same price as a cruise, so "why not suffer in exchange for another vacation?" My answer to him is because I don't want to suffer

And at least for me, suffering doesn't get me another vacation. It's PTO, not $$$, that is the limiting factor on how much I can travel for leisure. I wouldn't cross an ocean in Y if it were free (which these days it more or less is).

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