• Daqu@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Business class costs 5x economy, first class is 10x

    I would have to work months to be more comfortable for a few hours. Nope.

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        10 months ago

        No, it’s expensive but not “private plane” expensive. I rode first-class international once because I was recovering from covid and didn’t want to deal with the pain of coach (and the travel company that was responsible for my getting covid was paying some of the bill). I’m also 6’4" and don’t physically fit in coach. So like, yeah, I’m being physically forced out of coach cause it’s too small and I have to pay out the ass to just exist on a plane without physical pain. Must mean I have my own jet, and not that I’m getting fucked.

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      10 months ago

      The truth is.If you have first class money you have money to get your own plane and go anywhere without babies crying.

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        10 months ago

        This isn’t true at all… My wife and I fly first class and are no where near being able to afford flying private 🤣 the no babies part would be fantastic though.

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            9 months ago

            It’s ma’am! 🤪 And huge difference, like $1000 for first class domestic, compared to $10,000 per hour for private domestic minimum or memberships that are $100k+ just to join.

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    10 months ago

    “People don’t want to pay what you’re charging so you should drop the price”

    AA: “No”

    Repost to scare an economics 101 class.

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    10 months ago

    Inequality has gotten so much worse that rich people don’t even fly in the same planes as us anymore.

    That’s going to have perverse incentives on airplane safety too. They have no reason to update their laws if peasant airplane doors falling off becomes common.

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      10 months ago

      I have a friend that is a sales manager for private planes. He said business exploded during the pandemic and then never slowed down. This despite flights being eye-wateringly expensive (like, 20k for one-way is a great deal, because you managed to book an empty leg.)

  • NotMelon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Who exactly are they eliminating? Their customers or international first class tickets? Or maybe both?

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    10 months ago

    I’m guessing that’s because the international flights that Americans use instead are from other countries that does not have first class areas, in that everyone gets the same seating and leg space.

    Such a disgusting socialist ploy. The CIA should coup the pilot and copilot and divvy up the plane in “desirables” and “undesirables”, to then pin them against each other.

    Call operation “Spiraling Eagle”.

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    10 months ago

    I need to fly from NJ to California in a few months. Economy tickets are around $275. I’d like a bit of extra legroom for the long flight, so I check out Economy plus. Economy plus tickets are $800. What in the actual fuck is this? It’s not first class. I get no added benefits other than a few inches of extra leg room.

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      10 months ago

      Buy 2 seats, 1 behind the other, for $550 then walk in there with a toolbox and yeet that seat out through the emergency door onto the tarmac. You get more than a few inches and it only cost twice as much.