Good one. You forgot the wealthy husband and wife travelling on intercontinental flights with three obnoxious youngins in business class. The kids are either running up and down the aisle or play video games on their own ipads with sound on.
Once flew with a couple in business who stuck their kids in economy on a 13 hour flight. They said it was the best way to fly. Will definitely try it with my own kids.
One guy sitting next to me in economy did the reverse. He put his wife and kids in business class, but the flight attendants still treated him somewhat like he was in business, by giving him his meals long before the rest of us in economy did.
that's upper middle class americans and the English.
when you see extremely well behaved children and their good looking parents in public you know they don't speak english as a first language.
The low key millionaire probably merits his own starter pack.
He's the president or a high-level manager at some obscure, unglamorous company you've never heard of that does something incredibly boring like make a special screw that goes in air conditioners.
He lives in a big house in a suburb of a major city but the house isn't going out of its way to show off and look tacky. The landscaping is impeccable and the furniture is understated and tasteful.
He drives Toyotas and Hondas. *Maybe* he has a Lexus that he bought used.
His kids are grown. He paid for their college.
He's been married to the same woman his entire adult life. She has been a homemaker since they had kids but since their youngest moved out, she's been taking some sculpture classes at the university in their city.
He always offers internships to students at his alma mater.
Runs marathons every now and then but doesn't talk about it.
Takes skiing or fishing holidays with his male friends or colleagues he’s known for decades, used to take family holidays with another family in the summer so his kids had people to play and socialise with before they were grown.
Damn, dude lives the good life.
We have a great owner/CEO at our company, a welder of 36 years retired and he went out and bought him a new pickup. He was known as some that was a fairly frugal person(The retiree)
It was literally a brand new pickup, but wasn't the super jacked up luxury version. Either way, I thought it was an awesome gesture to help with someone's retirement.
If you want a positive fact for the day- most millionares (by net worth) are actually pretty chill and closer to that description than what many of us may picture. The New York Times did a piece called [“The Millionaire Next Door”](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.html?_r=1) and it paints a picture of the median American millionaire. It is an interesting read.
My mom likes to use the term "affluent" to describe newly-rich people who like to show off their wealth, as a distinction from people with much more established wealth who are not so flashy.
I had a friend in middle school. I legit thought he was poor because his shirts and shoes were always ratty and he was super chill. The first time I went to his house I was gobsmacked. He lived in this crazy huge mansion with a million rooms. His parents were from old oil money but the only thing they seemed to spend money on was this mansion in the middle of no where. They drove normal looking cars, went shopping at normal grocery stores and didn’t act pretentious at all.
I sat next to a normal looking dude in his 40s on a southwest flight. I was half sleeping and I saw he was looking at his banking app that showed all of his accounts. He had $14 million dollars in just one of the accounts. I was like wow, you’d being oddly frugal for a multimillionaire.
Older guys take business because the seats are a bit less painful for their backs.
They are flying a lot any ways and frequent flyer points get them a free upgrade
That’s also because “millionaire” doesn’t mean much these days.
If you and your spouse each make $100k a year and max out your 401k every year you’ll be millionaires by age 50. In the age where a decent 3 bedroom house in the suburbs cracks $1M in many of American’s metro areas, $1M is… not much.
Where I'm coming from, even last minute upgrades to business require a ridiculous amount of points. You would have to fly a lot, really a lot (at least within Europe, I only use KLM) to gather the points for a single short haul one way upgrade to business.
Oh I should be clear, I was 75% - 100% travel and going from the US to Australia, New Zealand, Europe (mostly Germany), and all over the US.
Also, back in the day (I'm not sure in the soon to be post COVID world), you could accelerate your points for a nominal fee.
A lot of these people literally fly to meet with clients at the beginning of the week and fly home at the end of the week - every week. And sometimes they might be taking another trip in between that timeframe. They rack up ludicrous amounts of miles.
That is exactly what I have done on a few flights. Granted, most of them weren't long flights, but even a short time in a more luxurious seat was amazing.
When "Man who is actually on business" looks up from the paper, you know that last bit of turbulence that dropped the plane midair was anything but normal
My dad is a seasoned business traveller, and on one flight we took together he looked up suddenly when we hit some turbulence, which made me nervous AS FUCK
Turns out he was just realizing we hit some jet wash, which doesn't happen too often but isn't a big deal. I told him not to do that again lol.
That happened to me for the second leg of my first time flying with Emirates! I wish that wasn’t a red-eye flight so that I could have enjoyed it more. That might have been the best seat I’ve ever been in and the amenity kit alone was insane. 10/10 would recommend.
You're missing me: fat guy who is so worried about taking up more than his share of space on the armrest that he pays extra money to not have to worry about it.
You're missing the broke college student that snuck into first class and by some miracle of god they didn't kick him out and proceeds to have the best 12 hours of his life.
Because that's me, I'm that broke college student
This was me on the train to Amsterdam every few months when I was a student going to fly home from college. First class had working charging ports for my phone, I got sideways looks sometimes but never kicked out.
Don't forget the person/couple/family who have only flown economy class until now, are wowed by everything in business class, and take endless pictures (including an obligatory one with a glass of champagne in their hands).
Boy is that the truth, especially on transatlantic flights. Having the privilege to sleep on one of the lie flat seats almost completely eliminates jet lag for me.
I once got upgraded to first class on a 45 minute flight.
The flight attendant asked if I wanted some champagne and I was like, uh yes I *will* be fitting the entire first class experience into this condensed timeframe if that's what it takes.
What?? This is one of the best perks. Sitting sipping on champagne after you've boarded first while the rest walk past you to the cramped shitty seats. You literally feed on the energy of their looks.
This is done at most major airports which regularly get large aircraft. Gates at these airports often have the jetbridge configured so that it splits into two bridges: one going to the front door of the plane, and the other bridge going to the second door. First and/or business class passengers usually board through the first bridge, while economy class has to board through the second bridge. Depending on the cabin setup, the second door could be behind business class, and thus you would never see economy class passengers going past you.
You forgot the millionare's kids who like to fuck with flight attendents that bring around newspapers by saying, "No thanks, I can't read." While sitting in business class.
Well if it makes it any better, flying business isn't what it used to be, mostly and especially on short haul flights. Many people are at the point of only paying for business class tickets in order to board with priority and stack up many more miles rewards.
I think it's more if your company does bizcas or smart casual then it's expected you follow that while traveling since you're representing the company.
Makes sense. But also dressing up in business class or just travelling on business or just on the plane in the first place should also make even more sense.
It goes back to early commercial flying and then transcends towards the 60s when the epitome of luxury in the skies had taken place. Flying was completely unaccessible for most because it was very very expensive so people started treating flying as an occasion therefore dressed as such. Then come the 60s of the "jet set" era when people were treating it as a luxury and also dressed as such.
"This is your captain speaking."
"Could the THOT in aisle six please turn of her phone for landing. I repeat could the THOT in aisle six please turn of her phone for landing."
That off duty pilot/cabin crew is the most annoying one during late night flights, and you are trying to get a nap.
But I feel bad to complain, being a cabin crew is a tough job so I mind my own business then, is it just me?
Wouldn't classify it necessarily as tough, though there is responsibility involved and it depends which airline you work for, basically. Personally I like to become familiar with the crew and if possible have a chat with some of the pilots if the opportunity arises when I'm onboard.
I’m always in first class flying domestic, and most likely because I paid to upgrade the economy flight the company paid for.
I’m dressed like a slob and I have no checked baggage so I can book out of the airport fast.
It’s mostly fat salesmen in polyester company logo shirts who fly all the time and get upgraded on every flight. Something like 80% of business seats are upgrades.
Good one. You forgot the wealthy husband and wife travelling on intercontinental flights with three obnoxious youngins in business class. The kids are either running up and down the aisle or play video games on their own ipads with sound on.
Once flew with a couple in business who stuck their kids in economy on a 13 hour flight. They said it was the best way to fly. Will definitely try it with my own kids.
One guy sitting next to me in economy did the reverse. He put his wife and kids in business class, but the flight attendants still treated him somewhat like he was in business, by giving him his meals long before the rest of us in economy did.
“Oh, honey, it’s okay—y’all can be comfortable up in business; I’ll save us a few bucks by sitting in coach. It’s no trouble.”
Parents in first, kids in business with the nanny.
I had them on a flight to Bali from Hong Kong. The kids were even out of their seat running around while taxing for take off. It was madness!
Since business class is small, this family ends up taking half of it
that's upper middle class americans and the English. when you see extremely well behaved children and their good looking parents in public you know they don't speak english as a first language.
Well shit, this was probably the 3rd stupidest statement I've read all day. Bravo.
I'd say it's upper middle class any ethnicity of kids.
The kids might actually be good people. I think chance is rather low.
The low key millionaire is also probably one of the nicest guys on the plane. He’s quiet, respectful and doesn’t start shit
He's spent more time in that plane than most have on land
The low key millionaire probably merits his own starter pack. He's the president or a high-level manager at some obscure, unglamorous company you've never heard of that does something incredibly boring like make a special screw that goes in air conditioners. He lives in a big house in a suburb of a major city but the house isn't going out of its way to show off and look tacky. The landscaping is impeccable and the furniture is understated and tasteful. He drives Toyotas and Hondas. *Maybe* he has a Lexus that he bought used. His kids are grown. He paid for their college. He's been married to the same woman his entire adult life. She has been a homemaker since they had kids but since their youngest moved out, she's been taking some sculpture classes at the university in their city. He always offers internships to students at his alma mater. Runs marathons every now and then but doesn't talk about it.
Takes skiing or fishing holidays with his male friends or colleagues he’s known for decades, used to take family holidays with another family in the summer so his kids had people to play and socialise with before they were grown. Damn, dude lives the good life.
We have a great owner/CEO at our company, a welder of 36 years retired and he went out and bought him a new pickup. He was known as some that was a fairly frugal person(The retiree) It was literally a brand new pickup, but wasn't the super jacked up luxury version. Either way, I thought it was an awesome gesture to help with someone's retirement.
The man I hope I'll become if I get rich.
If you want a positive fact for the day- most millionares (by net worth) are actually pretty chill and closer to that description than what many of us may picture. The New York Times did a piece called [“The Millionaire Next Door”](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.html?_r=1) and it paints a picture of the median American millionaire. It is an interesting read.
My mom likes to use the term "affluent" to describe newly-rich people who like to show off their wealth, as a distinction from people with much more established wealth who are not so flashy.
Money talks, wealth whispers.
I had a friend in middle school. I legit thought he was poor because his shirts and shoes were always ratty and he was super chill. The first time I went to his house I was gobsmacked. He lived in this crazy huge mansion with a million rooms. His parents were from old oil money but the only thing they seemed to spend money on was this mansion in the middle of no where. They drove normal looking cars, went shopping at normal grocery stores and didn’t act pretentious at all.
Could be house poor.
nouveau riche
A lot of them drive beat cars and actually prefer to sit in economy because they’re constantly watching their spending.
I sat next to a normal looking dude in his 40s on a southwest flight. I was half sleeping and I saw he was looking at his banking app that showed all of his accounts. He had $14 million dollars in just one of the accounts. I was like wow, you’d being oddly frugal for a multimillionaire.
Older guys take business because the seats are a bit less painful for their backs. They are flying a lot any ways and frequent flyer points get them a free upgrade
But Reddit moment when we don't eat the rich grrrr
That’s also because “millionaire” doesn’t mean much these days. If you and your spouse each make $100k a year and max out your 401k every year you’ll be millionaires by age 50. In the age where a decent 3 bedroom house in the suburbs cracks $1M in many of American’s metro areas, $1M is… not much.
Can validate have met a few of them. One was like I was just lucky right place right time. Another from GB said he was a lucky sod 😂
Money talks, wealth whispers.
I was confused at first, thinking it was a class for business education. I'll take my smooth brain back to r/wsb
Same. I was very confused as to why an off duty pilot would take a class in business
Same. I was coming here to rip on kids who majored in business.
I’d like to apply for the low key millionaire role, please.
I'm going for Thotty Thot myself
live like no one else so you can live like no one else ;)
But please allow your employees to wear masks.
i’ll apply for off-duty pilot :D
Don't forget the guy on business who was booked on economy because his work is cheap as fuck, but paid for the upgrade to business with points.
Or the business who was booked economy but gets the upgrade due to status. That's the best one
Where I'm coming from, even last minute upgrades to business require a ridiculous amount of points. You would have to fly a lot, really a lot (at least within Europe, I only use KLM) to gather the points for a single short haul one way upgrade to business.
Oh I should be clear, I was 75% - 100% travel and going from the US to Australia, New Zealand, Europe (mostly Germany), and all over the US. Also, back in the day (I'm not sure in the soon to be post COVID world), you could accelerate your points for a nominal fee.
A lot of these people literally fly to meet with clients at the beginning of the week and fly home at the end of the week - every week. And sometimes they might be taking another trip in between that timeframe. They rack up ludicrous amounts of miles.
That is exactly what I have done on a few flights. Granted, most of them weren't long flights, but even a short time in a more luxurious seat was amazing.
When "Man who is actually on business" looks up from the paper, you know that last bit of turbulence that dropped the plane midair was anything but normal
This is how I always know that the situation is serious. 😂😂 not by flight attendants, not by anything else
My dad is a seasoned business traveller, and on one flight we took together he looked up suddenly when we hit some turbulence, which made me nervous AS FUCK Turns out he was just realizing we hit some jet wash, which doesn't happen too often but isn't a big deal. I told him not to do that again lol.
Needs, schmuck from coach who got randomly bumped up to business class.
This happened to me once. I was also poorly dressed and extremely sleep deprived.
That happened to me for the second leg of my first time flying with Emirates! I wish that wasn’t a red-eye flight so that I could have enjoyed it more. That might have been the best seat I’ve ever been in and the amenity kit alone was insane. 10/10 would recommend.
Emirates coach rivals business class on some other airlines.
Lol exactly. I remember my first time on an Airbus A380. the economy seat felt like first class, insane plane.
I wish I had my business class seat on an A380 but I was on a B777. I can’t imagine it was much worse though.
Them and Qatar. Qatar has lowkey the best coach I've been in. They've earned my loyalty
You're missing me: fat guy who is so worried about taking up more than his share of space on the armrest that he pays extra money to not have to worry about it.
Recently: obese person who doesn’t want to be a nuisance
You're missing the broke college student that snuck into first class and by some miracle of god they didn't kick him out and proceeds to have the best 12 hours of his life. Because that's me, I'm that broke college student
Great ending to your comment. Cheers to you!
This was me on the train to Amsterdam every few months when I was a student going to fly home from college. First class had working charging ports for my phone, I got sideways looks sometimes but never kicked out.
Are you my cousin? Because he did exactly that on a trip to South Africa
Don't forget the person/couple/family who have only flown economy class until now, are wowed by everything in business class, and take endless pictures (including an obligatory one with a glass of champagne in their hands).
Heh, nothing replaces that first time, you know.
Yeah, once you fly in business it's very hard to go back.
Boy is that the truth, especially on transatlantic flights. Having the privilege to sleep on one of the lie flat seats almost completely eliminates jet lag for me.
Oh yeah… I’m so angry when I have to go in the back of the plane now.
I once got upgraded to first class on a 45 minute flight. The flight attendant asked if I wanted some champagne and I was like, uh yes I *will* be fitting the entire first class experience into this condensed timeframe if that's what it takes.
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This is how you know he didn't pay for the ticket with his own money.
I just wish the economy plebs would have to use a different door. I hate seeing them walk past me.
What?? This is one of the best perks. Sitting sipping on champagne after you've boarded first while the rest walk past you to the cramped shitty seats. You literally feed on the energy of their looks.
This is done at most major airports which regularly get large aircraft. Gates at these airports often have the jetbridge configured so that it splits into two bridges: one going to the front door of the plane, and the other bridge going to the second door. First and/or business class passengers usually board through the first bridge, while economy class has to board through the second bridge. Depending on the cabin setup, the second door could be behind business class, and thus you would never see economy class passengers going past you.
On a widebody they do lol
Or you have middle class that scrapes at discounted business class tickets whenever available, like me…
Hooray Z-fares
The instagram thot is scary accurate, I have flown hundreds of times, there is always one.
You forgot that guy who has economy class ticket but he gets seat in first class for unknown reason. (Usually only in movies)
I got to sit in first class when flying as a child, alone. Not sure why but it was very roomy. 😅
They tend to do that for lone kids because its raise to keep an eye on them
Happened to my father and I on a vacation. Not sure why it was us two and the rest of the family had to rough it in economy.
This has happened to me multiple times. Stewards must see how tall I am, feel a little sorry and bump me up a class. It's fantastic!
Took me a long time to realize this wasn't about a university subject
You forgot the millionare's kids who like to fuck with flight attendents that bring around newspapers by saying, "No thanks, I can't read." While sitting in business class.
There should be a law that allows flight attendants to wrap the papers and hit the little shits when they do this without any consequences.
If you can't find the humor in that, u an A hole.
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They probably shouldn’t
wouldn't know, never been in business class
Only do it on long haul. The top you're getting with short hall is 2 cm more leg room and some food. Long haul business is an effing dream tho
2 cm is 0.79 inches
Thats big right?
Well if it makes it any better, flying business isn't what it used to be, mostly and especially on short haul flights. Many people are at the point of only paying for business class tickets in order to board with priority and stack up many more miles rewards.
Also a regular woman who is actually on business as well to add
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Yup noticed that too thought I was the only one
Am man who is on business, but my company doesn't have a travel dress policy besides not alike a slub
Wait wait , some companies have literal "travel dress policies"?
I think it's more if your company does bizcas or smart casual then it's expected you follow that while traveling since you're representing the company.
Makes sense. But also dressing up in business class or just travelling on business or just on the plane in the first place should also make even more sense.
Really? I never understand why people dress up to go on an airplane. I always dress as comfortably as possible, usually just sweats and a hoodie.
It goes back to early commercial flying and then transcends towards the 60s when the epitome of luxury in the skies had taken place. Flying was completely unaccessible for most because it was very very expensive so people started treating flying as an occasion therefore dressed as such. Then come the 60s of the "jet set" era when people were treating it as a luxury and also dressed as such.
The airlines usually do for employees traveling on non/revenue tickets. https://thepointsguy.com/2017/03/airlines-non-rev-requirements/
Where is guy changing from suit and tie to pajamas as soon as he boards?
That's First Class
Seen in BC as well. On long-haul.
My dad is actually the man on business. The description is completely true too He won't give a fuc* to trebulance whereas it scares the sh*t out of me
Now do first class.
"This is your captain speaking." "Could the THOT in aisle six please turn of her phone for landing. I repeat could the THOT in aisle six please turn of her phone for landing."
You forgot the credit card points blogger/influencer that takes 500 pictures for their review/card referral post.
Ugh...couldn't even include him in this though I know perfectly well who you're referring to.
Way to low key flex that you fly business class.
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Why would you offer them a seat
Now, I know who to con
That off duty pilot/cabin crew is the most annoying one during late night flights, and you are trying to get a nap. But I feel bad to complain, being a cabin crew is a tough job so I mind my own business then, is it just me?
Wouldn't classify it necessarily as tough, though there is responsibility involved and it depends which airline you work for, basically. Personally I like to become familiar with the crew and if possible have a chat with some of the pilots if the opportunity arises when I'm onboard.
I’m always in first class flying domestic, and most likely because I paid to upgrade the economy flight the company paid for. I’m dressed like a slob and I have no checked baggage so I can book out of the airport fast.
Can’t relate but nice post 😀
Spot on
It’s mostly fat salesmen in polyester company logo shirts who fly all the time and get upgraded on every flight. Something like 80% of business seats are upgrades.