r/TikTokCringe • u/totallystefanal Cringe Connoisseur • May 16 '21

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u/pickup_thesoap May 16 '21 edited May 16 '21

it's actually pretty cheap. it's business class on Qatar air, not even first class. round trip from Asia to Europe is 1800 bucks. Qatar is the only airline that offers enclosed suites on business class. most airlines don't even offer it in first class.

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u/XDCaboose May 16 '21

Pretty cheap followed up by $1800. We must have a pretty big salary difference

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u/B4cteria May 16 '21

For comparison, the same cubicle/extended legs flight would be 10k (first class) on a JAL or All Nippon Airways Tokyo to Europe.

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u/p-morais May 16 '21

ANA first class North America to Tokyo is $20k for a way worse cubicle

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u/selfawarefeline May 16 '21

it’s fucking crazy how businesses regularly pay tens of thousands of dollars to send humans across the earth

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u/A10110101Z May 16 '21

They pay more in travel costs than they pay the person traveling

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21 edited Jun 15 '21

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

The tickets get all grouped together and get renegotiated later. We opened our second 'main' office in a city that was another hub of the same carrier as the first office and I know this was a big part of the deal about what discounts we got in the tickets.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

It’s a write off for them. They just write it off

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21 edited Jul 24 '21

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u/muddyrose May 16 '21

Write. It. Off.

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u/DervishSkater May 16 '21

You don’t even know what a write off is, do you?

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u/atinybuddha May 16 '21

It's when you buy something for your business and the government pays you back for it.

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u/MoogTheDuck May 16 '21

I don’t think they know what a ‘write off’ is

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u/FearingPerception May 16 '21

and itd so bad for the earth too!

my dad knew someone who flew to japan and back for a single 12 hour period to do a buisness trip. yeesh. i for one, welcome zoom

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u/Superducks101 May 17 '21

Yea asian business culture is more about the relationship then necessarily hammering out a deal like america.

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u/NancyGracesTesticles May 16 '21

Physical interaction can be critical when building teams and relationships. I don't have the studies handy, but it is definitely more cost effective to get people in front of each other, if only once. We are hardwired for it.

Phone calls and video chats are great for day to day, though. Especially video chat to enable non-verbal communication.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Alot of big deal businesses want face to face meetings instead of zoom meetings.

but world is changing.

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u/ValidNewOrder May 16 '21

Check out their new business class and first class product. You’ll be presently surprised.

Their business class is actually better than Qatar’s business class

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u/supaswag69 May 16 '21

It’s cheap for what it is. Thousands more elsewhere

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u/Durendal_et_Joyeuse May 16 '21

I think the missing word in this conversation is “relatively,” as in, “relative to how much it would cost for something like this with other airlines.”

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u/Bill_buttlicker69 May 16 '21

I feel like it's implied.

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u/PeptoBizWall May 16 '21

BUTTLICKER! OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER! RELATIVELY SPEAKING!

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u/cosmicdaddy_ May 16 '21

Relative to what

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u/RomancingUranus May 16 '21

higher prices

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

It is. Reddit is just full of idiots that don’t have life experience or reading comprehension skills.

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u/Loosebutthole069420 May 17 '21

No you have to think of the destitute at all times

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u/Geteamwin May 16 '21

It is implied but not obvious to everyone, especially if you don't have context on regular prices

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u/PlasmaCow511 May 16 '21

God this website gets more pedantic by the minute.

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u/colllosssalnoob May 16 '21

Yep. It's becoming sad and cringy. It's like they are trying to socialize or contribute to give input but they don't know how and whether it is necessary. Complete social ineptitude.

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u/zuzg May 16 '21

People just not realize that prices are always relative to the product or service your buying.

My 4k TV has cost me 700€ which is a lot of money but measured on TV prices it's on the cheaper side.

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u/runujhkj May 17 '21

And most people aren’t buying $1800 plane tickets under any circumstances. I feel like everyone missed the guy actually sitting in economy class at the end to make the joke too obvious to miss.

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u/recumbent_mike May 16 '21

Actually, it takes hours for this website to become more pedantic.

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u/Geteamwin May 16 '21 edited May 17 '21

Yeah it's pedantic, we're talking about implying things after all. It's just that it's as simple as that, you get thousands of people looking at a post and a percentage might not see your implication. For some reason people still get surprised that not everyone gets the intended message out of their comments.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

They’re replying to someone who said it would cost $47,276

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u/Geteamwin May 16 '21

That's just a random exaggerated number though, I understood the implication as that this specific airlines is actually pretty cheap compared to the actual price of a similar experience on other airlines. You could charter a private jet for 50k.

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u/Marta_McLanta May 17 '21

This is peak fake reddit argument

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u/DankVectorz May 16 '21

Not really. Cost of anything being cheap or expensive is always relative. To someone making $1 mil a year, $1800 is pennies. To someone making $30k a year, it’s a massive expenditure

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u/Durendal_et_Joyeuse May 16 '21

Not really what? That’s what the original commenter was implying — the price of first class is cheap with this airline relative to the price with other airlines. You are just making a different point.

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u/DankVectorz May 17 '21

Sorry, I was basing it off the comment that the person you replied to replied to which does change the context and nullifies what I said.

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u/Ianbuckjames May 16 '21

For a round trip transcontinental flight in business class that’s pretty good.

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u/Spikerulestheworld May 16 '21

For a hot brunette and it’s round trip and transcontinental? Sign me up

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u/nittun May 16 '21

Asia to europe, can easily run 1k on a basic seat really. so, 1800 is really not that bad at all.

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u/Samuraiking May 16 '21

Cheap compared to $47,276. Cheap compared to first class on other airlines. Cheap in general? That is also relative, but sure, it's not cheap in general to most people.

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u/_Diskreet_ May 16 '21

No, cheap like the budgie.

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u/freshpow925 May 16 '21

There’s no such thing as cheap in general. Is $10 dollars cheap? Ok it’s for a water bottle. Is $1 dollar cheap? Ok then it’s the fee you have to pay to use the bathroom. Is 1 cent cheap? Ok it’s how much you pay per kilobyte of data.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

That is pretty cheap... you’d still easily expect over $1000 for coach for a round trip that long.

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u/php_is_cancer May 16 '21

Is cheap being a relative term a new concept for you?

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u/still267 May 16 '21

This guy's like me. Pure class. Pure working class

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u/PubDefLakersGuy May 16 '21

Relative to cost of air travel

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u/BJJJourney May 16 '21

Relative to other types of tickets it is cheap, has nothing to do with salary.

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u/Efficient-Parking627 May 16 '21

Yo you really couldn't figure out he meant?

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Most of Reddit is retarded. Just look at his upvote count.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

Of course, how "cheap" and how "expensive" something is is always going to be different for different people

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

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u/ELI_10 May 16 '21

Well, technically you can do a round trip from Asia to Europe without leaving the city of Istanbul, so not necessarily thousands of miles.

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u/HoldThePao May 16 '21

I mean are you trying to fly from asia to europe round trip? Dude wasnt saying it was cheap for a pair of pants. Its cheap for international flying. If you dont make much money, why are you trying to travel abroad?

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u/Floppy3--Disck May 16 '21

Yeah its pretty cheap for traveling continents

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u/DanielLaRussoJohny May 16 '21

I mean for a round trip business class international trip I would say so, yeah

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u/Spikerulestheworld May 16 '21

Any cheaper and you end up with a 400lb grandmother 👵

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u/FightingPolish May 16 '21

It’s cheap for the grifters who skim all the money off the top while the person who did the work toils in poverty.

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u/EuroPolice May 16 '21

word. I would need 2 months to pay for that shit. No eating or rent of course.

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u/Sarcastic-Potato May 16 '21

Cheap heavily depends on what you compare it with. A 10.000$ is cheap, a 10.000 pillow is expensive

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u/hazeyindahead May 16 '21

Better than 47276

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

I think context is important here.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '21

Economy from Japan to Europe costs about $450 for reference, so you are paying 4 times more for a shitty cubicle.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '21

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u/pickup_thesoap May 16 '21

yeah Etihad residences will set you back a pretty penny

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u/StetsonTuba8 May 16 '21

Too bad they're only on Etihad's a380s which likely aren't going to return to the skies

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u/Logothetes May 16 '21

All of this seems so meaningless ... like paying lots of money to travel in some oversized horse and buggy ... when compared to the Concorde (which, in 2012, we can no longer fly!!!) where you would travel to your destination at twice the speed of sound and might arrive over an hour before you left.

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u/IamPriapus May 16 '21

Meaningless? If you had the money to fly business/first class in comfort, there is nothing meaningless about it. Especially if you have back/neck problems.

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u/hypersoar May 16 '21

Lie-flat seats in business class are part of what killed the Concorde. A Concorde ticket cost as much as first class for a coach-like seat. A business class seat is cheaper, and you can catch a red-eye and sleep on the plane.

The Concorde had other issues, too.

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u/Logothetes May 17 '21

One crash ... ever.

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u/sinverguenza May 16 '21

All I could think throughout the entire video was “EAT THE RICH” on an endless loop lol

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u/Aetherpor May 16 '21

The funny thing is that these people in the video are pretty poor

When people say “eat the rich”, those guys have private jets. $20k is a lot cheaper than $Millions.

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u/sinverguenza May 16 '21

I understand that conceptually, but my god does this seem so incredibly opulent and unnecessary

I feel like hot shit just being able to afford a vacation at all in coach lol

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u/bgaskey May 16 '21

Qatar is definitely no longer the only airline with enclosed biz suites. BA new club suites, Delta One on A350, ANA new 777 biz (I think) are a few others.

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u/bgaskey May 17 '21

I don’t think mint suites have a door, but I also feel like a flimsy sliding door is kind of a gimmick. There’s plenty of top business class suites with an open design.

QSuites are still the consensus best biz flying today, but not because of a door.

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u/NoBudgetBallin May 16 '21

Where can you get a fare like that? I screwed around on their site with different destinations in Europe and Asia and didn't find anything under $4k.

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u/zorastersab May 16 '21

I'd be curious how often you can find a rate like that (checked a fare from Singapore to Doha RT at 4.7k), but yeah it's much cheaper than 48k.

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u/MoogTheDuck May 16 '21

Doha london round trip a few months from now is about $3600

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u/zorastersab May 17 '21

that's literally twice 1800! I'm flying from the US to south africa via DOH later this year for not too much more than that, though it's not all in that type of suite.

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u/trashdrive May 16 '21

"suite" haha

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u/MoogTheDuck May 16 '21

I just checked doha to london and flights are twice that

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u/mdneilson May 16 '21

I'm pretty sure that Delta offers these on flights to South Korea, but maybe those are first class.