doomer

I mean, “first class” on an American airline to, e.g. Hong Kong, can get to about $6k round trip for one person. The types of people wealthy enough to fly first class long-haul international but not wealthy enough to fly private are almost always using their miles and points and status they earn on their work trips to score upgrades for themselves and relatives. In fact, if you have the highest status level with the airline and are flying on certain routes, particularly the China flights (where you are likely the only person on the flight to have that status), you are basically guaranteed an upgrade, no points or miles needed. They hold 1, sometimes 2 seats for these types of passengers until a day before departure before releasing them. Almost nobody sitting in first class has actually paid face value for that seat

Of course you’re going to have to drop the average person’s yearly salary if you want to fly in a first class suite on Singapore Airlines