I *might* allow economy to override comfort in any of those cases (last set), depending on the difference in price and the difference in comfort. Both extremes, skin-flint and extravagant, are in theory more likely with my own money.
When I was at DEC in the 1980s, and did some international travel for them, corporate policy was that for flights over 5 hours employees were entitled to business-class seats (or first-class if there was no business class). Having made a number of slightly-over-5-hour trips to the UK on my own money in tourist class, and a business trip from Massachusetts to Australia and New Zealand in business class for DEC, I think it's a very reasonable policy. Some people with various joint and back issues really couldn't tolerate those long flights in tiny seats at all, and even for the rest of us we arrive a lot more ready to accomplish something.
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Date: 2009-05-11 04:56 pm (UTC)When I was at DEC in the 1980s, and did some international travel for them, corporate policy was that for flights over 5 hours employees were entitled to business-class seats (or first-class if there was no business class). Having made a number of slightly-over-5-hour trips to the UK on my own money in tourist class, and a business trip from Massachusetts to Australia and New Zealand in business class for DEC, I think it's a very reasonable policy. Some people with various joint and back issues really couldn't tolerate those long flights in tiny seats at all, and even for the rest of us we arrive a lot more ready to accomplish something.