You’re taking your spouse on an anniversary trip and you’d love to splurge on business class, lie-down seats but there’s no way you’re going to pay over $10,000 for the seats.
Here’s a little hack you can try that recently worked for us.
Get to the airport on your day of travel much earlier than you normally would.
Instead of going to self check-in, go to the ticket counter and ask the rep if there’s any remaining business class tickets available to buy last minute.
If there are any, usually airlines are willing to apply significant discounts at this point to sell them.
Ask the agent how much the available tickets would be and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the price.
This happened to us recently on our trip back from the UK.
A one-way business class ticket would’ve been over $10,000 on this particular airline and I already had economy tickets booked for our family of 4 plus my mom.
I went to the ticket counter early and asked if there were any business class seats available.
She said yes.
I asked how much.
You won’t believe this.
She said $750.
Whoa!!! Booking online would’ve been around $10,000.
I was definitely tempted because our economy tickets had been booked free with points but $750 x 5 of us was more than we wanted to bite off that day for the 10 hour flight.
But we were still super impressed at the offer.
Had it just been my wife and I, we would’ve probably splurged.
I guess there’s always next time! :)
