Would you pay £500 each to upgrade to business for an 8 hour flight?

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Flying home overnight from Barbados. Working from home the day we land. An upgrade to Business would cost roughly £500 each. This is vs economy standard.

It’s a relatively short long haul flight, at 8 hours. Is it worth it? £1000 is about 15% of our take home salary for context.

No

Yes.

I assume you mean 15% of your monthly take home?

I probably would, but I'm a sucker for an upgrade.

Yes as its a night flight.
Is salary per month or year?

15% of monthly absolutely I'd take it in a heartbeat.

15% of year salary no.

No absolutely not for me. It's only 8 hours. I could go on holiday for a week for a grand or at least a long weekend.

Proper business, not TUI? Yes.

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No. I’d rather use that towards another holiday.

Monthly salary yeah

Depends on my age. When I was 30 I landed at Heathrow at 6am from two flights from Australia and was at my desk for 9am. Keeled around for most of the day but made it through.

Now at 53 I'd need to sleep properly on the plane and have a stress free journey so I'd do it for that price.

I think you might need to do the sums again…

Personally, no. We just booked flights to San Francisco. Cheap. The flights in total for 3 adults are 50% take home pay though.

No. I wouldn't.

If I took home 15k a month I wouldn’t be travelling economy in the first place.

Which airline - not all business class flights are the same

Poster deleted the post but it essentially accused me of only posting this thread in order to show off that I “take home £15k a month”.

From UK to New York no

From UK to Tokyo yes

Can you book the day off for when you get back? Or have a lie in and extend your hours at the end of the day? Even if it was proportionally not a huge amount, £1k could be spent on other things.

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It’s more like €6800 - not €15000.

Yes, l would. The journey is all part of the experience for me.

Lolling at the maths here, I think if my maths is correct your take home is similar to mine (which is not £15k sadly!) for me it would entirely depend on how much spare cash I had in my own budget. We have a holiday pot, if it was healthy and it was a special holiday £1000 is a steal for BC, but if the holiday itself was squeezed in as a nice extra for the year and I had plans for next year that I was saving up for I would save that £1000.

Yes. Sounds like a bargain, tbh.

£500 is a fancy lunch in Barbs so in the grand scheme of things it’s not a lot.

The only thing I would say is that when I flew back the flight was empty at the back and we were both able to lie down accross a row of seats. Premium was full though.

Well no I wouldn't because I don't have that money spare. If you have lots of cash then yes you might.