To be honest, I wouldn't be too happy paying a Business fare and having somone who paid a third of what I did land up beside me.
To be honest, I wouldn't be too happy paying a Business fare and having somone who paid a third of what I did land up beside me.
Why? Do you also have something against someone buying, say, the same coat as you for a better price? They are maybe taking a chance in waiting for a sale -and maybe missing out - or they are maybe just good hagglers. What difference does it make to you?
No, but as a frequent traveller and poster on various airline fora - it is staggering the number of people who think they can pay the cheapest economy fare and then upgrade for free/a fraction of the full ticket price.
If you want to travel business class, buy a business class ticket. Yes there are upgrades to be had unless economy is oversold and all passengers check in, they are rarely given to people without frequent flyer status or at least flying on one of their more expensive economy tickets. As I said, AF leave empty seats in business rather than fill when not necessary.
As for the honeymoon thing, the OP is on a routing likely to have plenty of "honeymooning couples" so it is unlikely/though not impossible that AF may make some sort of gesture.
For me, it's not so much that someone sitting next to me may have paid less but that they are sitting there at all - if I've paid full-fare business and there are spare seats (which there usually are), I would prefer they were left empty to give more room to spread my stuff. On some routes I've got so used to having no-one next to me that it's annoying when someone DOES sit next to me - and, irrational or not, I would find it doubly annoying if they'd invaded my space on a cheap upgrade - because if the airline hadn't allowed the cheap upgrade there would be no-one there!But the question remains what has it got to do with you what anyone paid for their ticket? Do you ask someone sitting beside you how much they paid to make sure they are worthy?
For me, it's not so much that someone sitting next to me may have paid less but that they are sitting there at all - if I've paid full-fare business and there are spare seats (which there usually are), I would prefer they were left empty to give more room to spread my stuff. On some routes I've got so used to having no-one next to me that it's annoying when someone DOES sit next to me - and, irrational or not, I would find it doubly annoying if they'd invaded my space on a cheap upgrade - because if the airline hadn't allowed the cheap upgrade there would be no-one there!
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