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Five Really Cheap Ways to Fly First Class

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Posted on 7/22/2010 15:59 EST
Filed in: Airfare, Cheap Travel, Cheap Vacations, Flights, Travel, Vacations

Here's to flying in style -- even if you think you can't afford it. ABC News shares some tips on how to budge your way into first class seats without paying first class prices. Plus, you won't have to bring your own sandwich.

"We're all sick of airline fees. But, sometimes, you can make them pay off big-time on the comfort scale. And isn't it time steerage passengers like us got a taste of the high life?

Here is one way: use some of the current fees to get upgraded to first or business class for less. It wasn't exactly easy for the airlines to figure out ways to get passengers to pay for these individually "unbundled" services, but since they have, we might as well pay the fees for things we really want.

And some of these are worth it, thanks to certain realities like the sheer cost of "upper class" plane travel today..."

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