So much for my flight plans.
-
@jon-nyc said in So much for my flight plans.:
Business is still fine, very different from their domestic flights. AA has lie flat seats in business on the international routes.
Besides, you probably wouldn’t want to pay for a first class ticket to Europe. You’re talking ~8k round trip per person.
We have them to Hawaii at about $5K each, but we'll have those pods to sleep in.
@Mik said in So much for my flight plans.:
@jon-nyc said in So much for my flight plans.:
Business is still fine, very different from their domestic flights. AA has lie flat seats in business on the international routes.
Besides, you probably wouldn’t want to pay for a first class ticket to Europe. You’re talking ~8k round trip per person.
We have them to Hawaii at about $5K each, but we'll have those pods to sleep in.
You have business or first?
-
You guys are spoiled. We go everywhere cattle class. I don't want to spend thousands of dollars just to make something suck less. When it comes to flying, it's the destination that's important, not the journey.
I was only joking
-
Anything 3 hours or less and I’d agree.
Much of my first class flying has either been on points or me paying for the upgrade for business travel. Often I could get the upgrade for under a hundred bucks. With what I was making it was chump change.
Is it worth it for Hawaii and 13 hours each way? You bet.
I totally disagree on the journey being unimportant. The journey is very important. That’s what I don’t like about flying. No sense of the journey.
-
Anything 3 hours or less and I’d agree.
Much of my first class flying has either been on points or me paying for the upgrade for business travel. Often I could get the upgrade for under a hundred bucks. With what I was making it was chump change.
Is it worth it for Hawaii and 13 hours each way? You bet.
I totally disagree on the journey being unimportant. The journey is very important. That’s what I don’t like about flying. No sense of the journey.
@Mik said in So much for my flight plans.:
Anything 3 hours or less and I’d agree.
Much of my first class flying has either been on points or me paying for the upgrade for business travel. Often I could get the upgrade for under a hundred bucks. With what I was making it was chump change.
Is it worth it for Hawaii and 13 hours each way? You bet.
I can handle 5-6 hours without too much trouble. After that, it starts getting a bit nasty. I think our company policy is we get business class at 7 hours. Obviously, senior management don't hold with that sort of thing when it comes to us proles, so they're happy for us to make the sacrifice for the common good.
One of my favourite memories was seeing three executives flying in from Germany by corporate jet to where I worked in Canada to present a seminar on minimizing business expense.
-
You guys are spoiled. We go everywhere cattle class. I don't want to spend thousands of dollars just to make something suck less. When it comes to flying, it's the destination that's important, not the journey.
@Doctor-Phibes said in So much for my flight plans.:
You guys are spoiled. We go everywhere cattle class. I don't want to spend thousands of dollars just to make something suck less. When it comes to flying, it's the destination that's important
10 years ago I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly. Even spending $200 more for Exit Row on a domestic flight was outrageous (I remember when attendants used to ask for people to take exit row seats rather than charge more…) spending thousands for a full recline seat, a bad meal, and a half a dozen drinks? No way…
The problem is that I can’t twist and contort my legs enough to fit into any Coach seats anymore without getting severe cramps within 90 minutes. I don’t know if it’s age or the space has shrunk, but it’s impossible. So I don’t fly the East Coast anymore. If I can drive there in 12 hours, then that’s what I will do instead of flying for 2… When possible I will take the NE Regional Train to Philly, NY, or Boston.
Flying to LA? I go business or first and bitch about the price the whole way (though I will recoup a significant part of the cost in drinks)…
-
I'm only 5 foot 7. There are definite advantages to being a short-arse.
-
The only times I have flown first class on international Tran-Pacific has been on upgrade. I am pretty sure that everyone else in the cabin was the same. On international flights, the gap between economy -->business is pretty big. Between business --> first class, pretty small. Slightly wider seat, maybe an extra course at meal time. In July, I flew ANA business (called "Business Suite"). It would be very difficult to find a first class seat that was better. They had "doors" that you could close, basically making your own little cabin. Provide pajamas if you want, etc. Very nice!
