You know you're a spoiled flyer when...
Mar 14, 2017, 3:58 pm
#76
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Mar 14, 2017, 11:38 pm
#78
Join Date: Jun 2016
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I think about the cost differences of flying upper class in a similar way, though instead of thinking about cash amounts-- which can seem kind of abstract-- I pose the tradeoff in terms of trips. For example, I could either take this trip in Business class; or, with the $2000 I save taking this trip in Coach, pay for flight & lodging for a second trip that otherwise wouldn't be within my budget. So far, "take a second trip" has usually won for me.
We don't always fly business class - it's expensive. I wish we could. It's so much easier on me when we do.
Apr 29, 2019, 5:57 pm
#81
Join Date: Apr 2019
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Nope nope nope nope nope
I’m 16 and frequently fly first class and can say that kids should reach a certain age before they always fly first class, but once old enough to understand it’s a privilege and not a right I say go First Class all you want
May 3, 2019, 7:10 am
#82
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My 9 year old granddaughter (who has been to Cabo twice with us year) has well stamped passport. On the second trip, she lamented flying home on WN-though she does like that airline. "Pop Pop, can't we fly on American? They have first class.:" (It sounds obnoxious, but it was said in a very cute way.) I refunded the RR points and we flew on AA. They had a better deal actually than the hefty RR points I was paying.
May 3, 2019, 7:19 am
#83
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My 9 year old granddaughter (who has been to Cabo twice with us year) has well stamped passport. On the second trip, she lamented flying home on WN-though she does like that airline. "Pop Pop, can't we fly on American? They have first class.:" (It sounds obnoxious, but it was said in a very cute way.) I refunded the RR points and we flew on AA. They had a better deal actually than the hefty RR points I was paying.
May 4, 2019, 5:36 pm
#84
Join Date: Jun 2017
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I've 3 or 4 unused KLM ammenity kits, my wife now has them at home for keeping jewllery in. Though I think she hasn't got round to using them for that yet, and they are still all complete.
They do make for a cheap gift for the wife
May 4, 2019, 7:01 pm
#85
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I have no idea why I take amenity kits. It's a compulsion. I took to depositing them unopened into a large box at home. A few years ago, I went through the box and contributed a bunch of toothbrushes, etc. to a homeless shelter and threw out the socks, earplugs, etc. I know better, but I continue to take them. On recent flight I was disturbed that I didn't get one. Why?
May 5, 2019, 6:21 am
#86
Join Date: Jan 2014
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I would however disagree that everyone who is flying is spoiled. I know lots of folks that haven't seen a lie-flat seat in their whole life and will probably never see one.
And by the looks I sometimes get by people passing through the C cabin to Y, there are a lot of them.
And by the looks I sometimes get by people passing through the C cabin to Y, there are a lot of them.
The vast majority of flyers will never travel anything better than economy on a place, likely a majority of people who have flown WTP/Business/First do so once or twice as "once in a lifetime experiences". People who fly premium regularly are a very small part of the population. I've done 6 business flights out of around 50 in my life, and I'm from the developed western world in a two decent income household with no kids, and I don't mention that in normal conversation because even that is something that most people couldn't afford to do.
When I look back at the first times I flew, the first times I used a lounge, the first time I flew premium I can see how expectations have changed; though I think in my case my general impatience means that now the novelty of flying is past I find the whole process to be irritatingly slow regardless of the perks of premium classes.
May 5, 2019, 9:09 am
#87
formerly known as Tad's Broiled Steaks
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To be fair, being able to fly more than a handful of times already puts someone in a relatively small subsection of the human race so it's all relative.
The vast majority of flyers will never travel anything better than economy on a place, likely a majority of people who have flown WTP/Business/First do so once or twice as "once in a lifetime experiences". People who fly premium regularly are a very small part of the population. I've done 6 business flights out of around 50 in my life, and I'm from the developed western world in a two decent income household with no kids, and I don't mention that in normal conversation because even that is something that most people couldn't afford to do.
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The vast majority of flyers will never travel anything better than economy on a place, likely a majority of people who have flown WTP/Business/First do so once or twice as "once in a lifetime experiences". People who fly premium regularly are a very small part of the population. I've done 6 business flights out of around 50 in my life, and I'm from the developed western world in a two decent income household with no kids, and I don't mention that in normal conversation because even that is something that most people couldn't afford to do.
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1) Certain flights exist mostly to transport guest workers between a rock and hard place.
2) I've had better flights in Y than in J/F...for me, it all has boiled down to how well-behaved the other passengers/crew are. Worse yet are airlines that allow in-flight calls. GROSS.
May 6, 2019, 7:49 am
#89
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I didn't take my first real international trip until I was 30. (And that was to Aruba) I am so happy to be able to show our grand kids the world. Its an education you just cannot get in school.
May 8, 2019, 12:27 am
#90
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When I was really young (7 or 8), I once cried because I was not able to sleep properly in economy class for a long flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Aberdeen Scotland. For long flights like this, we always take business class. But for this particular flight, we were not able to fly business. My father never fails to bring this story up whenever he can. I didn't realize for fortunate I was to be able to fly business class since a young age.