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Sounds like you only fly first class. Have you ever flown 10+ hours in economy and felt ready for work (or even vacation) stepping off the plane?

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It sucks, but I've done it and do it. Unfortunately sometimes you just have to.

But these are maybe around 10h max flights - given the range of ~4000-4500 miles. So you're still on a plane for ~5 hours.

But you still have the same issues with time zones. If you need a lot of time to adjust to a new time zone, you were always flying in way earlier - so whether your flight is 5 hours or 10 doesn't really matter much.

You were never going to red-eye in for a morning meeting in London or Paris either way.

This will be a private jet, and they are pretty expensive. Apparently flying in a Bombardier Learjet costs something like $7000/hour [1], while a first-class ticket is more like $1000/hour.

[1] https://www.aircharterserviceusa.com/about-us/news-features/...

> while a first-class ticket is more like $1000/hour.

I usually pay like 160eur/hour for top tier F products like the Emirates A380.

I just paid a little over 4000 euros for a 32h round trip with that particular offering. I don’t chase after deals, I just tend to depart from a city without many F pax.

Of course, YMMV.

This doesn't seem possible - I have never seen first tickets that cheap from anywhere to anywhere. Can you provide a few example routes?

Most Emirates long haul flights departing from AMS,BCN or MXP seem to be that cheap, I'm sure there are other cheap airports but I'm too lazy to look. This is probably the case with all the euro airports that don't charge super high fees and lack large quantities of F pax.

I'm seeing MXP-HKG at 4000eur for a round trip, MXP-BKK for 3800eur. There are probably even better deals available if departing from some third world countries.

I guess you're from the UK, I'm seeing BHX-HKG priced at around 151GBP/hr. Shockingly, LHR-HKG looks even cheaper at somewhere around 100GBP/hr.

I think you’re seeing corona virus at work. Those F tix are usually more from what I’ve seen.

I was paying those prices last year. Only the LHR rates there seem highly unusual.

I wouldn't be surprised if economy class on this future supersonic jet costs the same as first class (or at least business class) on a traditional jet.

Though either way, even after a 9 hour business class flight, I'm certainly not ready to go to work when I get there even though I had a lay-flat seat.

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