Dear Reader,
I’m not one to hurl insults, but there’s one insult so witty it always brings out the minor league pitcher in me and makes me wish I had a deserving target. You may have heard it:
“When ignorance reaches $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights to his head.”
Who said that? I have no idea. Someone back in the seventies, I guess (judging by the target price). Just wish it’d been me. But I am no wit, that’s the truth of it.
I was a pitcher, though. For the Kansas City Royals. Then I became a coach. Not a baseball coach, a getting-out-of-coach coach. You see, I had the knack of getting teammates upgraded to better flights. Now I’ve turned that knack into a profession. (My team here spells that O-B-S-e-s-s-i-o-n.)
Thousands of travelers around the world subscribe to my newsletter, First Class Flyer. My passion is their passport to the pointy, pleasurable end of the plane… via strategies that capitalize on the little-known, sometimes unknown until uncovered by us, loopholes and anomalies that abound in the aviation industry. Now we have something new.
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We here at FCF have, just this week, published a Special Report. It’s Report #1 in what we hope will be a successful series. Many months in the writing and editing – half my life in the researching – it’s an aggregate of strategies amassed for flying Business Class to Europe.
Entitled Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe, it comes complete with asterisk. But the asterisk is no disclaimer… it’s a claimer. It is quite possible to claim a Business Class seat for the price of Premium Economy. Even, at times, for less than a seat in coach.
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Even much-maligned procrastination, sheer spontaneity or simply having to get there as soon as possible have their advantages, as the SHORT-NOTICE BUSINESS TRAVEL section of the Special Report reveals. Why break the bank when you can break the fare? By eschewing the popular route and choosing low-fare routes, you can save thousands of dollars on your round-trip travel. But what if you have no time for that, no choice but to pay full-fare on short-notice, and you must buy Business?
Hey, don’t buy Business fly Business. Buy a full-fare economy ticket, for instance, and upgrade on points. The report tells how to do this, even if you don’t have the points.
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Fly Enlightened, it’s the best brand of all.
The report’s entitled Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe because you are entitled to do exactly that. Whether you are paying with money or miles you are entitled to deals readily available, but hardly ever offered by airlines, and certainly never ever spotlighted. Airlines are masters at keeping the masses in the dark. Pulling down shades is second nature to them. Hoping everyone in coach dozes off, so their treatment as human baggage goes unnoticed is a key to the survival of the airline species. And who’s to blame them? Their survival is important to us all, and always fiscally iffy. It is in their interest, everyone’s, especially at times of high fuel prices, to – if not foster ignorance – at least allow it to flourish as nature intended.
It is in my interest (and yours) to eradicate it… but sporadically.
Secrets aren’t secrets once they become common knowledge, so I am hoping my Special Reports become just fairly good sellers, never Best Sellers. And Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe – might Fly Deluxe for Ridiculous Bucks better represent some of its contents? – is a whole compendium of secrets; along with tips and tricks that can make trips in big metal tubes beyond bearable, very pleasant in fact, because of the seats you can snag.
Meet my friend’s friend.
Mind you, I showed Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe to my friend who showed it to his friend. His friend read a few pages and said, basically, ‘I already know that.’ His friend is a brilliant forensic accountant in semi-retirement. A lust for detail, a love of travel, a deep intellect and a deep interest in finding hidden bargains while avoiding high or perhaps even ‘everyday’ prices – plus the time he has on his hands – has given my friend’s friend a new hobby: aviation investigation. I doubt I could ever convince him that he might not know it all. (Maybe I could get his email address and tell him about the scrawled note some dad left on the fridge for his teenage kids: Why don’t you leave home now while you still know everything.)
The thing is who – even a brilliant forensic accountant – would want to spend countless hours trawling airline websites, reading acres of eye-aching fine print, studying ads and promotional emails and talking talking talking to airline clerks? Who’d want to collect, analyze, crosscheck and compare all the complicated ins and outs of a dizzyingly intricate and (at times) infuriating industry? Who’d want to drill into the mountains of minutiae in order to lock onto a seam and follow it in the hope that it will lead to a nugget? Me, that’s who. I love it. And my First Class Flyer subscribers seem to appreciate the results of my quirky job (subscriptions, thank goodness, are on the rise).
Money-back Guarantee, of course
I want you to buy the report, naturally, but I don’t want it to cost you anything. I want you to be convinced it will pay for itself, in savings and in comfort, and unless you are I want you to take your money back.
Here is what you can expect from our first Special Report. While FCF is a monthly newsletter, Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe is a specialized report. It offers 80 ways to get the best fares, upgrades and awards via eight chapters, called Flight Plans.
Flight Plan 1 gives you my Ten Best Strategies for Airfares.
Flight Plan 2, my Ten Best Strategies for Upgrades.
Flight Plan 3, my Ten Best Strategies for Award Tickets.
Flight Plan 4, my Ten Best Strategies for Business Class Seats.
Flight Plan 5, my Ten Best Strategies for Free Stopovers and Side-trips.
Flight Plan 6, my Ten Best Strategies for Free Companion Tickets.
Flight Plan 7, my Ten Best Strategies for Short-Notice Business Travel.
Flight Plan 8, my Ten Best Strategies for Flying Premium Economy.
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I have named the FIVE BEST AIRLINES for Business Class Upgrades to Europe. I have named and shamed the FIVE WORST AIRLINES for Business Class Upgrades to Europe.
These two lists come complete with upgrade costs and interesting back-stories.
Which of those ten airlines do you think are the very best, and the very worst, for Business Class Upgrades to Europe: American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Continental, Delta, Lufthansa, Northwest, United, US Airways, or Virgin? With the best of those, an upgrade could cost as little as 25,000 miles from a surprisingly reasonable Premium Economy fare. With the worst of that bunch you could – were you profligate enough – pay as much as 100,000 miles only to get whacked with further upgrading costs.
Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe shows how it is not necessary to have accumulated frequent flyer miles to spend miles on an upgrade. If you are an infrequent flyer, or your mileage tank is close to empty, you simply buy miles from the lowest-priced of several sources. The report’s Airline Mileage Purchase Programs chart lists ten airlines, the cost per mile, the limit each imposes on miles purchased or gifted, and all the links you need to do the deals.
With fares still in the stratosphere despite the plunging price of oil, many will be despondent. But despondency’s the bastard child of ignorance, and rather misunderstood. There are now fewer travelers, yet there are no fewer deals. Rest assured, recline assured, there will be juicy deals to Europe in the upcoming months, as the industry stares down the barrel of, well, that price per barrel. But some of the deals will be so desperate that pride, and brand reputation, will prevent them being promoted too publicly.
Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe, then, is a timely tip-sheet as well as an enduring, and we hope endearing, 77-page Special Report.
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Skeptical of Special Reports
That Cost Big Bucks? Me too.
It’s taken us awhile here at First Class Flyer to get into this kind of publishing, despite the urging of subscribers and colleagues. I’ve always been skeptical of stuff offered to me via emails. ‘Get Rich’ investment schemes I find especially irksome.
Why would someone sell me a sure-fire scheme when he could be applying it himself – and re-applying and re-applying it, ad infinitum – for his own gain?
Well, I realize this is different. All the advice contained in Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe, every trick in the book, I do use whenever I can. But one man, one team, can fly only so much. (Last year we racked up over a million miles.) And anyway, this is no sure-fire Get Rich Quick scheme, it is not even sure-fire. Fly Deluxe for Fewer Bucks to Europe is more strategybook than checkbook, a serious but simple-to-digest reference for those who might otherwise be daunted by the huge difference between the published Business Class fare to Europe and the economy fare. Those who know they don’t want to spend interminable hours in the barely bearable confines of coach and yet who know also they can’t justify the price-per-hour premium of a ‘normal’ Business Class fare. Those of us dilemma’d thus.
It points out obvious insights. Insights so obvious that, until pointed out, they are invisible. Air travel is Swings and Merry-Go-Rounds – that’s obvious. What the airlines might lose on the relatively reasonable economy swings they gain handsomely on the relatively unreasonable Business Class Merry-Go-Round. But air travel is not only Swings and Merry-Go-Rounds, it’s at times See Saws and more. In holiday times, for instance, when economy travel is up and business travel down, the same can apply to fares. You’ll read no ads telling you Business Class can be cheaper than economy, but trust me it often is.
When we fail to prepare
we prepare to fail.
Europe is not a destination. It is countless destinations. Each such a romantic adventure your spirit and soul will be replenished. The challenge is to not bookend your next European odyssey with anything other than the most pleasant flights you can organize. That friend I mentioned earlier, the one who isn’t the forensic accountant, tends to be rather disorganized, and was by his own confession ignorant of what my report contains. Recently returned from Paris, he’d booked his family economy class. Not shelling out was more appealing to him than stretching out. But at Charles de Gaulle airport he experienced, just like last time he was there, an unattended baggage incident. New airports, so beautifully designed to run smoothly, fail to take into account what chaos happens when things don’t run smoothly.
Standing like cattle for nearly an hour; first with the smokers outside then with the crush inside; striding headlong on the all-clear for the check-in gate only to begin inching forward in a snaking, de-humanizing line separated from the family; one lost soul in three planeloads of log-jammed passengers; waving for help as a 9-year-old boy in front fainted for the second time; and finally being told to pay an exorbitant amount for excess baggage or to try lugging it – nay, smuggling it in as shoulder luggage – into steerage… this was no way to end a wonderful European vacation. The in-flight experience itself was worse, much worse, for reasons he declined to go into.
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My friend has declared that he will pay the whopping great difference and fly Business Class next time.
Will he never learn? He doesn’t have to pay that whopping great difference.
See you up front,
Matthew J. Bennett
P.S. You will get to examine all eight chapters risk-free. If you are not completely satisfied with the 80 upgrade tips, secrets, and strategies that will help you to fly in significantly more comfort, for the same kind of money as you’d ordinarily pay, you will receive a complete refund in less than 24 business hours—guaranteed—any time you say so for 90 days. Just call us toll-free at (888) 980-9922.
P.P.S. I’m so confident my risk-free offer is worth your while, I’m prepared to put my miles where my mouth is: If I’ve left out even a single, significant Business Class airfare strategy to Europe you know about, I will personally pay you 10,000 miles, on the airline of your choice, if it’s worth publishing. Just call me directly after you’ve read my special report—(831) 644-7777 rings on my desk, or email me at Mr.Upgrade@firstclassflyer.com.
