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This sounds like "Just pay three thousand dollars per flight and problem solved!" Plus, business class only helps you avoid jet lag on certain itineraries. Som
by jzwinck 11y ago
This sounds like "Just pay three thousand dollars per flight and problem solved!"
Plus, business class only helps you avoid jet lag on certain itineraries. Sometimes due to timing, sometimes due to crappy business class on some shorter flights or less luxurious airlines.
- manigandham 11y ago> This sounds like "Just pay three thousand dollars per flight and problem solved!" That's because it is. The fact that there's a solution that costs money doesn't make it any less of a solution.
- Nullabillity 11y agoA solution doesn't really help if it's not an option in the first place.
- nommm-nommm 11y agoA solution that 99% of us can't utilize, unfortunately. It's like if someone suggested how to improve public transportation and you answered "I found the best improvement - just take a cab everywhere."
- manigandham 11y ago> It's like if someone suggested how to improve public transportation and you answered "I found the best improvement - just take a cab everywhere." I think you mean the experience of public transportation, in which case, air travel is public transportation and buying 1st class tickets does improve it. Cabs are private transport and wouldn't be a solution to that specific problem.
- stcredzero 11y agoIt's like if someone suggested how to improve public transportation and you answered "I found the best improvement - just take a cab everywhere." Re: local transportation: What if it ends up being an improvement of the transportation market, to the point all middle class people can afford to pay for a ride in a car when you really need it? Virgin Atlantic started off with Richard Branson chartering planes across the Atlantic. How could one disrupt transatlantic travel in a different way?
- vigilant 11y agoBut this is hackernews - the demographic is highly paid silicon valley workers. If you're making 250k-500k a year, then a few thousand dollars whenever you do a transcontinental flight is a reasonable luxury. It is just a few weeks rent, after all.
- ant6n 11y agoYeah I don't think many people who read HN make that sort of money.
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- robotresearcher 11y agoThere are lots of people here who don't meet that description. Please don't make us feel unwelcome. There is plenty of room for a sub thread for solutions for people without business class budgets. Don't read it if you don't need it.
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- paulpauper 11y agoor $30,000 for private plane