Originally Posted by
mctaste
If you are paying to fly business or first, i dont think you get to play the “retired / low disposable income” card...
LOL!
"Low" is a relative term. By my friends standards I am quite well-off... but it is clear that by the standards of some on this forum I am just above the breadline!
I never fly First. I cannot afford it and in any case... it just isn't worth the extra over club IMO. I normally fly Y within Europe and WTP longhaul but occasionally J. I have done a couple of "cheap" TP runs for fun. It is my main hobby to be honest and I can't afford to fly anything like as much as I would like to. So when you are talking about airline flying even a reasonable pension is very quickly eaten up and I am then into my savings and that won't last if I am not very careful.
So I do claim that I don't have a lot of disposable income when we are talking about flying around the world as a hobby!!! Every time I book a J ticket it stings!