If you’ve come here looking for ways to find cheap first class travel, you’re in the wrong place. This post was written to give you all the reasons why low cost first class travel is a bad thing. The whole point of traveling first class is to embrace a luxury lifestyle that includes all the works: luxurious surroundings, impeccable service, the best food and alcohol, and high class companions. By trying to cheapen the experience of traveling first class you are removing one of its best characteristics - that the only people who can afford it are elite, wealthy, discerning travelers.

If everyone has access to cheap first class travel, then traveling first class suddenly becomes the travel equivalent to owning a Louis Vuitton bag. When is the last time you saw a truly wealthy woman carrying around a Louis Vuitton bag? It’s been awhile, right? That’s because the elite have moved on to rarer things. To maintain the elite nature of first class travel, we want it to be expensive and rare.

If you read our previous post, on how to find discount first class travel, you might wonder at this sudden change of tone. See, finding discount first class tickets implies that one is lucky and taking advantage of a short price deviation. Most of you would have bought the tickets anyway, so congratulate yourselves on being savvy consumers.

Now cheap first class travel is another story. This implies that the very nature of first class travel is unaffected by price when price is really the biggest differentiator from the travel available to the every day masses. First class travel is not just the nice seats, extra leg room, and free champagne; it is defined by the experience of spending obscene amounts of money on getting from one place to another.

If you value your first class travel experiences, you’ll probably agree that cheap first class travel is a bad thing.

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