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Old Jan 22, 2003 | 6:01 pm
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B Watson
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by wavehunter:

6.) If you have the stroke to repeatedly by domestic F tickets, you probably have the stroke to charter a G5 and go in style. In reality domestic these days its not first/economy, its 2nd class and 3rd class.
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No fault of yours - but this is one of my REAL pet peeves - I keep reading about how no one will fly in F anymore since all of the F PAX are flying on charters or frac shares.

I fly one way - Paid F and about 500K miles per year and about $350,000 in Air attributable to me. I rarely fly with other people, so it is just me.

This would buy me on the order of 35 hours of G5 time - not exactly a real answer for 500K miles of travel - can quite get it in with only 35 hours

My JAX, point to point, would have charted at $23,200 for a mid size jet (we quoted it since I was originally going with 4 other people)

So I do have the "stroke" to pay F but how cant that REALLY be compared to spending $23,000?



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