Sometimes First Class Is Cheaper Than Coach

Posted by Mike Richard on September 14, 2007
Filed under: Sidelines, Travel

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From the illogical airline logic department, Elliott notes:

Always check the first-class options on a flight. Amazingly, they may be less expensive than the economy class tickets. That’s what reader Joe Farrell discovered when he reserved a flight on Continental Airlines.

“We were looking for a cheap fare from Hartford to Tampa, and I noticed that the airlines were asking for $500 to $600 roundtrip in coach class,” he says. “Then I clicked on ‘first class’. I was surprised to see fares of $450 round trip for the identical flights.”

Hmm. Economy for $500 or first class for $450. Which would you pick?

Lesson learned: “Coach is not always the least expensive ticket — and many people never know that,” says Farrell.

If nothing else … when you’re dealing with an airline, you have to think like one. Which is to say, don’t use logic and make no assumptions. They certainly aren’t.

Of course! Why didn’t I think of that?

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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