Qantas, for instance, charges $10,844 for a first-class round-trip ticket between Los Angeles and Sydney.
When the French national railway inaugurated a three-hour train service on the 490-mile route from Paris to Marseille in May, Air France cut round-trip fares on the route to as little as $70 , versus $84for a second-class round-trip ticket on the TGV.
Finally, because of her status, we said we would honor a first-class round-trip ticket from London, and only for those meetings which we called.
A first class theme song".
"What you're really doing in most cases is hiring a celebrity, paying for first-class, round-trip airfare and five-star hotel accommodations," he said.
On Italy's fastest trains, the Frecciarossa and Frecciargento, the round-trip fare for a same-day return is fixed at 109 euros (about $150) for a second-class ticket, or 149 euros (about $205) for a first-class ticket.
Back then, you could get a first-class upgrade for 12,000 miles or two first-class round-trip tickets for 75,000 miles, mileage expert Randy Petersen writes in his authoritative history of the AAdvantage program.
These included a round-trip flight from Washington to Miami for $169, and a stay at a first-class Art Deco hotel on South Beach, the Hotel Astor for under $100 a night for a weekend, before taxes.
