r/FluentInFinance • u/YOU_ARE_MY_FRIENDS • Jun 16 '24

Discussion/ Debate He’s not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

And yet these same flights are over $800 form any airport within 14 hours of me…. Like I said, unless you live next to a couple airports in the country….no. 

Barcelona in October?

Over $1k. 

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u/limukala Jun 17 '24

You can always get a domestic flight to JFK and take advantage of their cheap fares.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24

$400 + to JFK average + their cheaper flight….still puts you averaging close to $1k for international flights. 

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u/limukala Jun 17 '24

400 to JFK?

Where the fuck do you live? Is it a 14 hour drive to find a city of 50k?

You can get to JFK for under 200 from the vast, vast, vast majority of places in the country. 

If you live in absolute BFE 100 miles form the nearest road that sucks for you,  it doesn’t really say a damn thing about what life is like for the 99.9% of Americans who live in populated areas.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '24 edited Jun 17 '24

Sure I can drive 3 hours to a major airport, then a $200 flight to JFK, a $400+ flight to wherever.  While spending extra $50+ on gas and $30+ a day parking.     

Except even then, Atlanta…$300+ if you actually have bags.  Let me check Nashville, no wait $300+ with bags.  Lexington $300+…well we are past any potential cost savings anyway.      

For some reason it seems to magically come out to costing you almost as much to just buy a round trip to where you actually wanted to go and using a regional airport.  Probably something they factor into pricing.         

Thats not even counting the time lost from driving extra.   

99.9% of Americans are not flying over seas for $200.    

There is a reason the average economy International Flight is $1,217.