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  • Garethgerry 135 posts

    Concorde was very comfortable for what was just under 3 hours, and much more comfortable than club Europe, you paid for speed not the space. But Wine wasn’t bad either.

    First class on a train isn’t first class, but it certainly gives you a better and different seat than second

    Back to club Europe. I’d happily pay much more for a decent seat. It’s not about money, I spend what I think the occasion deserves. £1k a night on holiday is fine but if it’s a stopover on a long drive then a clean bed in Premier Inn in does me. I haven’t flown less than business longhaul for 40 years.

    As for food, eating on the plane in short haul in the day is just not something I do.

    I just have an aversion to companies taking the mickey. To suggest CE deserves the name business class is a joke. To suggest that as was originally asked is it worth 3 times the price of economy is pushing it.

    Yes even with our limited 6 figure annual holiday budget, I make choices and I’m happy to give CE a miss

    Quite, @JDB.

    I regularly pay £100 for less than two hours in a more comfortable first class seat on GWR, and I don’t even get fed beyond a packet of crisps. I resent the cost, but still pay up, so, I’d willingly £100 for a Club Europe seat, food that’s far superior to the BA lounge and a glass of wine.

    I fully recognise that I’m fortunate to be able to afford that choice, and I’m sympathetic to anyone who feels their limited money is better spent elsewhere. But to suggest that an extra legroom economy seat is as good as Club is arrant nonsense. Better value, maybe; better absolutely, no way.

    Ihar 369 posts

    To suggest CE deserves the name business class is a joke. To suggest that as was originally asked is it worth 3 times the price of economy is pushing it.

    I think you might have answered your own question. As for 3x, 5x or 10x – that’s the value YOU place on it, not the OP or anyone else. I’d pay it, you wouldn’t. We’re all different.

    Garethgerry 135 posts

    The OP asked if it was worth it, and my opinion is no, and that’s nothing to do if anyone could afford it or as in my case even notice such a trivial sum.

    You may disagree, but don’t make assumptions about the reasons with false sympathy about limitedbudgets.

    Rob
    HfP Staff
    2,492 posts

    We do it all the time DESPITE having status (and thus getting lounge etc anyway).

    That said, interestingly, I refused a £110 one way upgrade to Vienna last week when the Austrian website offered it to me (and HfP would have effectively swallowed 50% of that via a tax rebate) so I’m not sure I understand my own logic sometimes! Probably something to do with the dodgy cold breakfast I would have got ….

    And on the same trip I took the tube to Heathrow even though HfP would de facto have paid 50% of an Uber ….

    People do not always act rationally, which is unfortunate for writers of economics text books.

    (Next weeK: why do I carry around a 5-year old iPhone when HfP would pay for a new one?!)

    NorthernLass 9,440 posts

    If you haven’t got status, it’s also worth it since the pandemic domestic service cull to get rid of the gate staff buzzing around trying to separate one from one’s hand baggage.

    *If one is HBO, that is, and doesn’t need to collect bags anyway at the other end. We have offered up wheelie cases under these circs (in CE and with status!), as we were going to be waiting in the basement of doom at MAN T3 regardless.

    MrWhite 111 posts

    I think the answer for the OP is, “it depends”. The cost vs benefit is quite a personal thing depending on what you value.

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