Originally Posted by
Syzygies
It's amazing the resources some people will apply to sit in first. We all have our price. Looking at future flights, I do hesitate over paying $50 extra (-$10 fare difference) for SJC, but I fly all the time, and after trips to India, Australia, Thailand, Japan I think anyone who can get uncomfortable in domestic coach is a serious wimp, not a good candidate for space travel. Applying that opinion to myself, I hesitate over the $50.
It's not about the meal, I cook better than any restaurant I can afford, and scanning the FC menu is generally an exercise in crossing out choices, "Do I really want to know how other people eat this?" I grind my own flour, so the pasta's out. And so forth.
Plenty of people are willing to pay $1000 for first. $50 for good chances at first is a deal, from that perspective.
Sorry to stir up any culture wars here, it is amusing to land in SJC if one was expecting SFO. Jokes are one way to prepare people for a small airport with inefficient public transportation.
It's amazing how controversial this is. Even with the cab ride, he may have paid more than $50 less flying into SJC rather than SFO, so it might be a wash. Or maybe he walked away with some money in his pocket even! How? The SJC flights don't seem to fill up as fast (perhaps because people are worried about flying into a 3rd world country as you're insinuating). Therefore, the lower fare basis codes hang around for longer.
In my own case, I booked a round trip from SJC to EWR in June. The fare for that was $288 plus tax, or $318 total (round trip)! For the same trip out of SFO, the lowest fare was in a higher bucket. I was seeing $368 plus tax ($388 total probably) as the lowest SFO EWR fare...$70 more than out of SJC. If you're near the San Jose Airport anyway, or even a $50 cab ride away, it still seems more than viable as an economic prospect, especially if they served you osso buco for dinner, instead of a cheeseburger and macaroni salad.
So, maybe OP is smarter than all of us, even though he has become a lightning rod for some unknown and inappropriate reason. Anonymous message boards tend to bring out people's worse behavior, I suppose.