How to Beat Airlines at Their Own Game

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If you’re a frequent traveller, you know that the airlines make the rules: they’re happy to take your money and nickel-and-dime you along the journey, but often unilaterally change the rules when it doesn’t suit them.
But sometimes, it’s possible to beat the airlines at their own game. Here are five key lessons from my experience pursuing an Air France La Première fare from Paris to San Francisco for only US$472.05.
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[@nicolaslanglais]

"How to Beat Airlines at Theit Own Game *by being a massive pain in the ass for everyone around me including passengers flying to Frankfurt* "

[@ohmyafy]

This just sounds like so much work, if I want to fly first class I wouldn’t want to deal with all these headaches. That’s just me.

[@gregh7457]

and that is why you will always be stuck with the unwashed masses fist fighting over face masks in coach

[@natis1268]

Are you talking about the US? Because in Europe we fly economy with most of the time some very polite and well mannered people.

[@gregh7457]

@@natis1268 according to the european union air safety agency "It's bad and it's getting even worse Every 3 hours the safety of a flight within the EU is threatened by passengers demonstrating unruly or disruptive behaviour. At least 70% of these incidents involve some form of aggression. Once a month the situation escalates to such a degree forcing the plane to perform an emergency landing" You need to upgrade your news source

[@ezrastewart543]

@@gregh7457 well darn, i've never seen any disruptions

[@CanalOtro]

@@gregh7457 You there some of us that pay for these out of pocket and easy?

[@waynebutane1338]

"This is how I spent thousands of dollars for flying back and forth between two cities while causing a huge headache to everyone around me including me"

[@unlimitedrone1680]

He is a great rolemodel! It's not that we are in a climate catastrophe and we should avoid any unnecessary flights.

[@whothebeast666]

@@unlimitedrone1680 thinking this one guy prancing around on a couple flights that are taking off either way is a problem for the climate is absolutely headass. Blaming the individual is the reason why the clean energy movement has struggled for decades. Don't be like them.

[@textliter]

@@unlimitedrone1680 to be honest the flight is flying no matter what, so it makes no difference if you are on it or not.

[@robertespinoza9104]

I hope the flight was the best part of the trip because damn it's almost like he cared more about flying first class then seeing anything on his trips

[@textliter]

@@robertespinoza9104 he’s probably made all his money back and then some with the views on KZbin

[@paul_om4822]

I was rooting for you right up to the deplaneing after checking in a bag, you know that's going to mess with a lot of people who paid full fare for their flight.

[@ciaomariano4640]

Not only the check in bag. When you leave an aircraft, the cabin crew must do a whole entire security search of the aircraft in case you left any suspicious item that could compromise the safety of the flight.

[@WhatIsThis-zq4hk]

What a nightmare. You may have gotten a luxury plane ride but the amount of misery and stress you caused for yourself and others outweighs it in my opinion. Not to mention the inconvenience you caused the flight crew and airport employees. Doesn't matter that the flight left on time. That's probably because the airport staff had to rush to get your bag or else get penalized for delaying a flight. Videos like this make me miss being able to see the dislikes on a video.

[@tidanmd]

It's fine if you want to "beat the system" and torture yourself to get on a dream flight. But deplaning with a checked bag at the last minute is disrespectful to everyone on that flight. Not cool.

[@ace9848]

The only point of an airplane in my humble opinion is to get from point A to point B (for work, holidays, family, friends) He threw money and time just to "enjoy" alone a flying seat... hysterically jumping from city to city without a goal. He probably didn't even enjoy those cities.

[@Ty-ri7dy]

I agree, but in this case, this was not just a fancy travel vacation, it was his DREAM. Quite different from trying to game to system for a discount shrimp dinner.

[@BillLaBrie]

Satanism 101

[@Gunshinzero]

At the end of the day it's the airline fault for all the lies. Offering stuff they won't honor

[@BoeingJetJockey]

If I’m that captain, I would be so pissed too. You didn’t only costs Lufthansa and their passenger ‘time’. But you also costs them more consequences and it’s probably costs a lot more than $472 for sure. Every time the flight delay, it costs a lot. I’m not talking about A specific flight but as an airline captain, let me explain in general principle. First, the crew must search area where you’ve been onboard (seats, bins, toilet) for possible IED (aka bomb). If your ‘mind change’ is too suspicious. We might have to deplane all passenger and have a through bomb search. Then if you have checked baggage, the captain will have to call loading truck back(he might have already drove away to serve another flight or some airport might have just one loading truck, period), re-open the cargo hold, unlock the brackets, bring out ULD box down (hopefully it’s the ULD box near the door, innermost box would take at least 20-30minutes to get to), search for the bag in the box(hopefully it’s not in the bottom and innermost), take out the bag, close ULD, lift it up and slide it back in cargo compartment, lock floor brackets, close the cargo door. These could range from 10-15 minutes to over an hour depending on the baggage matching system at the airport. At this point, some passenger might want to get off a plane as well since they are also afraid you might plant a bomb on a plane. The more people get off, the next wave will come. It’s a domino’s effect. After no one else wants to leave the plane. The load supervisor then had to reissued load sheet with final weight and passenger figures and bring the load sheet to cockpit to get a signature from captain. Pilot have to reprogram performance data, recalculate the take off data. Then they close the door and get a push back clearance (assuming the flight plan hasn’t already been cancel if it’s been too long). The flight might had missed the pre-assigned pushback/takeoff slot time and the new slot could be more than an hour away from scheduled departure time (happens a lot pre-pandemic and in country such as China, it could be 2-3hrs away) Many passengers could miss their connecting flight when they arrive their destination. Some will have to wait until the next day or two for a new flight and they have to shell out their own expenses for hotel room. Or they could’ve missed their transfers (for example a remote ski resort might run their bus once a day in the morning, if you miss it, you have to wait for another day) So changing your mind and getting off an airplane at the last minute is not as simple as you jumping off a yellow cab. If you’re having fun trying to beat the system so be it but please don’t be a dick by causing multiple problems for others.

[@BoeingJetJockey]

@O T I have been flying almost 30 years. True, passenger who change their mind last minute happened to me about 10 times. But when some passenger who jump a flight at intermediate stop (say a flight from point A to C but the flight will stops at point B. Some A to C passenger who has checked baggage wants to get off at B instead….happens almost every time!) More often it’s when passenger who have checked baggage but didn’t show up at the gate at departure time and we have to re-open cargo compartment, search bag, flight delayed 15-25 minutes but cause further delays because we loose slot time happened to me about 15-20% of the time.

[@BoeingJetJockey]

By the way, we treat intermediate stop flight jumper the same security procedure as a bomb threat one. Coz we’d never knew they really just change their minds or if they’ve planted a time/remote controlled bomb in his checked baggage or somewhere in the cabin.

[@SMGJohn]

@@BoeingJetJockey Thats always gonna be a problem in "selfish" societies of individualism creamed all over the place, just gonna have to deal with it sooner or later, inevitable action so to say. Countries like Japan probably has 10 delays or stops total, in a year for all their planes combined LOL.

[@BoeingJetJockey]

@@SMGJohn Japanese punctuality must be number one in the world. (take Japanese train for example) But when I fly TO or FROM Japan, the flight still delays. But 99% of the time it didn’t cause by Japanese passenger.

[@choriamanah]

Oh i see this often in the episodes of Heathrow or Dubai airport on TV. The deadline the airport workers need to meet is no joke!!

[@fcjtifiknow]

What a massive hassle. The whole point of flying first class is that you have a seamless stress free journey. That just sounds like a nightmare. Not for me

[@stefaniaschweizer9748]

well said

[@stonynotdusty]

He also couldn't have saved that much.

[@dashcan8479]

He is a scammer of Visas and work permits

[@hot4kookie]

Losing time and all that effort I would rather fly economy.

[@inneralignmentwithcathy]

Agree I don’t see the point here to fly first class like this but thanks for sharing

[@RyanLackey]

I would be so furious if a travel blogger caused my departure to be delayed.

[@jeremykothe2847]

As opposed to a drunk tourist?

[@davec8153]

@@jeremykothe2847 As opposed to someone with a more understandable situation, like if your immediate family has an emergency and you must deplane to be with them. I think many would do what he did in that situation which makes it a lot easier to sympathize than someone who got off just because he wanted to fly AF F instead of LH F.

[@donnawoodford6641]

I can wait out for a legit reason, i.e. medical emergency, death in the family, but to satisfy the demand of an entitled person? No, I don't think so.👎

[@yxcvmk]

To a point, I can understand your point of view. Being in the position of Lufthansa crew or passenger, I would first see it similar. At the bottom, however: The issue is with KLM (and the low cost carrier). KLM should just have honored a contract and eat the loss. They made the mistake, probably learned from it, and can act accordingly in the future. Fact is, they did close a contract with a customer, and them trying to get out of it made the situation as it was, PLUS: The low fare carrier (forgot the name) was not performing according to the factual Visa regulation of the destination port. The guy at the counter should have done more to verify his claim, especially if a customer makes clear, that his information is of substance - no matter how contrary to the service guy. May have been more of an ego game at this point, than customer oriented behavior?

[@lukilup1]

@@yxcvmk to be honest, i have a different view on that. 1. He booked a fare that was clearly the result of a (technical) mistake. He definitely knows the fare was a mistake and that air france has every right (according to the terms and conditions and the french/dutch law) to cancel his booking and to refund him. Air france however didn't even cancel his booking like they could legally do, but instead offered him to travel in Business class (still >4x more expensive then what he paid). 2. After the mistake was discovered by air france he didn't step back and he didn't accept the business class offer/demand a cancellation, but instead his secretary kept the call center busy for hours and even started lying and hanging up the phone when they weren't supportive for him to fly first class. 3. I understand that vueling (low cost carrier) didn't want to take the risk of taking him to algeria, since it would be their responsibility to take him back to spain on their expenses if there appears to be an issue with his "visa free" transit. Speaking of which, the visa free transit wasn't published anywhere explicitly, he even had to call an embassy to check whether the transit was possible (what can not be expected by an airline, they stick to the immigration requirements IATA shares in their database). But i accept that you have a different view on that.

[@bratzdol]

I remember when Air France accidentally issued this "mistake" fare. Prince of Travel is forgetting one other cardinal lesson/rule of experienced premium points and miles travellers - Always book a great flash fare - but never, never, NEVER. book a mistake fare! Learning and knowing the difference, and following that golden rule would have avoided ALL of the drama described in this video! I know this from over 15 years of international First and Business free (award) travel across all 3 alliances. I once had a check-in agent remark that a cash fare I had paid for a certain First Class flight was the lowest she had ever seen - but was still completely valid and within reason.

[@megnelli]

Tell us more! Please 🙏🏼

[@enochmartin7190]

Why not book a mistake fare? If they advertise it at that price then they have to give you the ticket, right?

[@blubb9004]

@@enochmartin7190 Yep, I'd be interested in the reasoning too - here in Germany, an offer is legally binding. There were sentences about that already, e.g. gas stations that frequently change their prices - you are entitled to the deal offered when you >entered< the gas station with your car, not the one that it might have changed too later. But I'm not sure if there is something like "obvious error" or so in our law, I'd guess there is (such as when the board shows only zeros, you wont get the gas for free).

[@LMvdB02]

@@blubb9004 In the Netherlands there is an obvious mistake exemption for binding transactions.

[@GoldenTeeTV]

@@enochmartin7190 becuase of the headaches you are going to endure trying to keep them on their word. so it's a ballancve of, is this really worth it or should i just snag another i know i will not have to sweat to make it happen? To some yeah why not. To others naa. After a while you've been there done that so making life easier becomes more of a goal then getting that deal or over on someone you know.

[@ericstruan3647]

You left out the most important part: How did Rachel convince them to reverse themselves yet again? I’m surprised they gave you the fair with just a 1500 dollar change fee knocking out the Algiers Paris segment, The more interesting video would be Rachel’s explaining in more detail how she convinced all these people to make these changes. Rachel, start blogging and we will ask the prince to tell us how to find your blog

[@ericaroundtheworld]

Exactly !!! This seems like one of those "lesson" and "tips" u said u were going to give but never do .

[@spliffnotes8359]

I want Rachel to be my assistant and my girlfriend lol. She's awesome.

[@Retrosenescent]

The real travel prince here is RACHEL for the amazing work with customer service

[@crushingit5128]

You really just breezed through the most important part. Convincing the airline to honor your ticket.

[@TheStringBreaker]

He probably told them he’s a travel blogger lol

[@Retrosenescent]

"Have a sister willing to spend 10 hours on the phone with Air France for you"

[@sanderrambelje]

Rule 6: Don't inconvenience fellow travellers while trying to game the system. With all due respect, I think you were highly disrespectful for deplaning the Lufthansa flight just for fun and games. I'm on your side when it comes to cunningly benefitting from small windows of opportunity that airlines may give you that allow you to snag a good deal, free upgrades, vouchers or refunds. They're big profitable corporations that, as you mentioned, nickle and dime travellers for everything and, moreover, are quite successful in not paying taxes. So by all means, take a little advantage of the corporation here and there. However, I feel you're crossing a line when you're becoming a plain nuisance to airline staff (especially flight crew) or other passengers. These folks already have a pretty tough job, don't make it worse. Just ask yourself the simple question: "how would it be like if all passengers behaved the way I did?". If the answer is "not great", then don't be that person. Aside from that, keep up the good work. I appreciated the first 4 steps, even though I tend to fly mostly for the purpose of getting to my destination, or at a minimum, enjoy low-stress travel, so won't be purposely copying this strategy anytime soon.

[@g00nther]

I agree in general. I'll give him a pass since this was a once in a lifetime thing, and that was one hell of a crazy story.

[@RiegerKeith]

Agreed. In addition... Rule #7 - NEVER check a bag. Always simply pack one carry-on (especially if the primary purpose of your travel is to only experience First Class). I personally travel all around the world for multiple weeks at a time and simply pack only one backpack (OGIO Epic)

[@robertberin4872]

@@RiegerKeith It also allows him to skip the final leg.

[@jonnel13]

Truth. Nobody should ever consider deplaning a flight as someone's success story.

[@frankkelley2708]

Thanks

[@Jaydeekatt]

I honestly don’t even care about the La Premiere experience. All I wanna know is how Rachel convinced them in the end and how I can acquire those negotiation and persuasion skills. They will get me EVERYWHERE in my career!

[@paulborash7302]

I thought the same thing! I read a book last year named Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss, and the information for communicating tactfully was SO insightful. Worth checking out.

[@Jaydeekatt]

@@paulborash7302 Wow, thanks so much for the resource!! Chris Voss is awesome! I took his Art of Negotiation Masterclass.

[@ahmedhussein223]

he is a youtuber who is doing reviews, he and Rachel are lying, she must have mentioned the fact that he is a youtuber, they thought about it, and figured it will be bad publicity to cancel him however it will be a very good marketing move if they allow him to publish a video review. plus the fact that he is reaching out to the airline through an "assistant".

[@ChrisMALUKAI]

@@ahmedhussein223 That's exactly what I thought 😂

[@barnabiegrossman718]

@@ahmedhussein223 I highly doubt the airline cares about 50k subs. It's much more likely that they got a lucky sales agent who was like "wow, hot damn, I'm amazed you managed to find this ticket. I'll let you keep it."

[@richardgarno6591]

Lessons I learned from this video. 1. This would only work if one does this for a living. For the rest of us, waiting days, weeks or months, and changing plans just isn’t feasible. 2. Don’t inconvenience others just to have fun, get what you want or make a better story (i.e deplaning the Lufthansa flight). Self-entitlement is inappropriate and there is no justification for it. 3. I won’t watch more of your videos nor join your club. 4. If I ever see you at an airport, I will introduce myself and talk with you, just to be sure we’re not on the same flight. Like most other people, I actually need to go somewhere. By the way, how did all this effort, much of which was your assistant’s, equate to beating an airline at its own game?

[@cuddlescho]

I don't understand why someone goes through much trouble and inconvenience his assistant/passengers just to fly 1st class.

[@ThePlatinumsquirrel]

Also the fact he based the bonus for his assistant on likes is awful.

[@dalguy82]

Amazing story but I need to ask how much you ended up delaying the LH flight with your bag offloading? If it resulted in a bunch of passengers missing their connections then you really owe them a huge apology.

[@PrinceofTravel]

Thankfully, the flight wasn’t delayed (arrived early by 2 mins)

[@weekendframe7210]

Right! All that trouble he involved others into his wasted time.

[@ericstruan3647]

But they would have arrived that much earlier had you not been screwing around to this extent. I agree with this guy, get all the freebies you want, but when you start delaying planes and impacting other people just so you can have your “once in a life time” upgrade…….that’s a bit much. My experience is that retrieving a bag is at least a twenty minute process. And then all the messing around they must have had to do to get it to you after you flew with someone else.

[@Anyatash123]

@@PrinceofTravel are you Chinese?

[@joshuamaserow]

The pilot probably flew faster to compensate, maybe burning more fuel.

[@user-es5zf5dn6p]

As an airline call center agent, I felt annoyed. We work for people who really need to be assisted by us, but after watching this video I understood that there’s also some of them playing with passenger’s time.

[@timoooo7320]

Airlines screw people over all the time, so it's okay if one person games their system once

[@shriramvenu]

thats not fair. he paid for a ticket and is entitled to it. but the airline kept trying to cheat him

[@RizZaTV]

Screw you! Every day you guys change prices it's literally impossible to get a good price for a flight because you cheat on us every day! So every glitch to save money and avoid your rip offs is welcome!

[@malohatsaidabdullaeva]

Hi, can you share information about difficulties of your job?

[@Retrosenescent]

You watched the video with your emotions instead of with your brain. Air France abused and exploited him and tried to steal from him. He rightfully requested his ticket be reinstated to what he paid for.

[@thegingeredmuse9396]

You had me until you said “by the way some of you are saying I gotta give Rachel a nice bonus for staying up until 4am to call Air France…” - you my Sir are the epitome of Worlds Worst Boss!! Your viewers have to dictate to you that Rachel deserves a bonus in pulling off the dirty negotiating portion of your plan???!! And then “give this video a like down below and then how many likes it has in a week will be the number of dollars Rachel gets as her bonus” -promoting the algorithm to work for your benefit! I hope Rachel finds a different job with a boss that respects and pays her fairly!

[@fatihtaskaldran2786]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@Lou-vg7nh]

And all this sentimental crap is why you'll never be a boss...

[@abrararifify]

While I do agree with you, a $14,000 bonus doesn't sound bad 😂

[@fatihtaskaldran2786]

@@abrararifify It isn't a $14,000 bonus. Watch that part of the video again, he says he will give her a bonus for the likes this video gets for a limited amount of time, I can't remember how much. Maybe a few days or something.

[@emimon2351]

Because he's Asian cheap, not Korean expensive

[@spinalcrackerbox]

I can appreciate the attitude approaching this to the point of not caring/being in denial about what led to these fares on the airlines side - but they are indeed error fares that were never meant to be published at that rate. Congratulations for getting it reinstated in First. Of course, it won't hurt to try, I guess this is where having a personality that just doesn't have the word "no" in their vocabulary comes in handy.

[@hr5641]

This is pure insanity. I just aged 5 years listening to your path to get on that flight. I’ll pass

[@stmichaelshill7421]

This is insane. You seem to treat Rachel pretty badly, and the whole thing is so self-indulgent. You make out that not having prawns at the front of a plane is the worst thing imaginable. When you get your assistant (who you're apparently giving a huge bonus too - well deserved) to ensure you don't get charged loads to take a flight you didn't need to take it all seems pointless.

[@alexclifford2485]

Abso-bloody lutely!

[@davec8153]

He gave the entire Lufthansa crew lots of hassle just because he wanted to go from Lufthansa FIRST class to Air France First class, then now he's using Rachel's bonus as hostage for likes.

[@PrinceofTravel]

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[@nict8015]

It seems to me that the advice and tips you share suggest that you spent two years too long trying to calculate, strategize and manipulate others… you reference the term “mistake” fares… perhaps that what it was, a mistake made by another human. It would be different if you really were expecting that rate but you said it yourself- you were trying to capitalize on the mistake of another “HUMAN.”

[@sukisakain]

Wow! What an incredibly selfish person inconveniencing other passengers who did nothing to him. I remember the time when I was praying there was no delay as I needed to get to my father who was in critical condition. It was good that they flight landed on time but he could have caused other people to miss important medical appointments or life event because he wanted his experience.

[@sheldoncooper0]

It's typical of them Japs....

[@podgedurka]

I’m not sure why Rachel got subtitles she was perfectly clear.

[@hansschmidt3144]

some people: having dreams like... restoring humanity, saving biodiversity, increasing people's life standards all over the world. guy in the video: having the dream to travel all airlines 1st class. and in the process, belitteling poor staff members in shitty jobs. just because something is legal, doesn't mean it is fair. ticks parasiting on society.

[@Guylian]

Finally, a comment I was looking for! 👍Such a waste of life to persuade a dream just to experience the taste of luxury... Not mentioned all those tons of CO2 emissions the guy wasted/will waste during all his flights to the destinations he even does not need to fly to at all!🤦

[@nomanor7987]

Is La Premiere really worth all that hassle?

[@matrixofdeath]

Nope lol 🤣 how stupid can it get to pay that much for few hours 🤣 even if you're millionaire you don't waste 10k on a airplane ticket dafuq ^^

[@josephschmeggins6311]

@@matrixofdeath Yeah, you do.

[@mihirshah161281]

If we sum all the money he has(Approx $500 on ticket, then the flight he could not board from Spain, Lufthansa flight he deboarded) spent, the time he and the lady spent (consider monetary value of time based on your hourly rate and they collectively spent about 6-8 hours on call plus all the delays while swinging between flights and cities) and all the mental pain he has to go through, this deal is not worth it.

[@robertberin4872]

$450 + $1,500 fee + $500 (flight from canada to Europe) + $150 hotel + $500 wasted time = $3,000+ (NOT $450 fare).

[@pattyfluegel7816]

@@robertberin4872 depends on what he pays to have an assistant

[@audreyp5962]

Extremely selfish to cause the issues with Lufthansa having to remove your baggage. Wow. Disgusting.

[@PrinceofTravel]

That’s why I shouldn’t have checked a bag

[@niekdejonge8052]

Would do the same in his position, at that point of the story everyone needs to suffer and have a bad experience to feel what he felt. No empathy for no one, not at that point.

[@davec8153]

@@niekdejonge8052 I hope one day you have a flight where you must arrive on time, and some asshole decides to delay the flight for a equally frivolous reason and you end up not making it on time.

[@muhammadalfarizy743]

@@PrinceofTravel you shouldn't try this at all

[@unlimitedrone1680]

@@PrinceofTravel You shouldn't take unnecessary flights at all. Your whole hobby is ignorant.

[@ceciliaruns72]

She deserves a raise and bonus! 💰 Great story! Not sure it was worth the effort though!

[@davdin2]

$13,000. Worth it.

[@memd777]

@@davdin2 are you kidding me? 13000 likes not even reached yet...

[@marquepoolejewer9427]

😂same. But this is obviously his passion, so that's nice

[@EliteCitrus]

@@memd777 it is now

[@rock3tcatU233]

All of this in order to fly first class on a mediocre failing airline... I'd rather go on Ryanair with the amount of stress this has caused.

[@Thatrandomavgeek]

Mediocre airline ?! Yeah continue to fly Ryanair it is more for people like you

[@AHMEDGAIUSROME]

One two threeeee :p

[@marlonbrown5763]

Great video thanks so much 🙏

[@sheiladikshit5110]

"book now, ask questions later" is the most solid piece of advice in the airline game, period. i can't count the number of times over the years i've missed out on deals, sometimes by simply hesitating a few minutes.

[@smhninja3746]

He said "ask your significant other later" what if they say yes they want to go. And now the deal is gone?

[@PrinceofTravel]

That’s why you book for 2 people

[@smhninja3746]

@@PrinceofTravel so you book for your significant other for an expensive yolo trip without knowing if they'll be able to go?

[@Matt_from_Florida]

Yep. Even 30 seconds can change everything!

[@Rdburnzy]

I missed a one-way flight to India for $45 because I paused to think about it for a few seconds..

[@sebastiand.1305]

I’m confused what the purpose of flying to fly-as opposed to traveling to a destination-is. Just seems like an inconvenience.

[@barnabiegrossman718]

What do you mean? You don't like spending 3 days on the phone and flying from one place to another to another to another just for the chance of catching a flight?

[@davec8153]

He's a travel blogger, I suppose these ridiculous shenanigans are all part of his "job".

[@EastofVictoriaPark]

I guess it's not the destination, but the journey. I wouldn't do this, but I also understand that my way of thinking is not what everyone would do.

[@solalie2005]

this just made me mad.. deciding to board the plane with a CHECKED IN item then in the last second leaving?? You do understand that you might've caused many ppl to miss their transition flight, yeah? as impressive as this story was I cannot applaud you but simply be in awe of the amount of selfishness you've shown here.

[@domG]

WOW just found your channel this morning and love it!! Love the Prince of Tennis reference. Your adventures are nerve wracking and wow you have nerves of steel. I was using your steps before I even found your channel. Always be prepared to change your plans. Flexibility is key.Thanks for sharing your experience. Cant wait to watch the others.

[@joe-vl3nd]

Spot on

[@5133937]

Great story, very educational :). But you should also make a whole separate video on how your assistant managed to negotiate you back into First Class, twice. That’s some miracle working. Upvoting for her bonus!

[@brians2733]

I have learned over years of traveling that I will pay for simplicity and to avoid hassle.

[@kevinandange]

Great advice. Thank you so much

[@jesdadotcom]

This was oddly suspenseful and intriguing. I'll never travel this way but I was hooked on the storytelling. Of course, I say this as someone who scrambled to get home from Italy during the covid lockdowns and had to make a series of alternate plans.

[@J-ce3oi]

screw that! this is crazy i wouldn't go through all this stress for a flight! lol

[@PrinceofTravel]

A totally reasonable take 😀

[@ucheucheuche]

This is a lot of beating yourself to get a cheaper ticket. First Class to me means the whole experience, airport, flight and hotel.

[@Dummigame]

"How I became the textbook example of the biggest nuisance on earth, whilst being the worst boss of all time, to switch from a flight I didn't deserve to one I deserved even less."

[@MrJayTeeee]

Loved the video! Subscribed

[@LoganLavery]

You inspired me to chase a pending charge back for services not rendered with my card company. Thank-you!

[@MrNiallbroughton]

Way too much effort and stress here, was this really worth the hassle? How about all the work and time others had to go through for you to get your 'dream' flights? I really enjoy your videos but this crazy panic over what flights you might get as if it's life or death really missed the mark, especially in this day and age when most people would be grateful to get any flight.

[@PrinceofTravel]

I do see your perspective Niall, in fact as I was going through it I was asking myself the same thing. Most people would dream of flying Lufthansa First Class but here I was so emotionally strung on La Première. At the end of the day though we all have our irrational desires that we'd go to extreme lengths for, mine happens to be travel and aviation and hence I forged ahead every step along the way.

[@uz16]

@@PrinceofTravel if you were actually passionate about traveling, you would show us you know, you in your travels. but nah just obsessed with high end flights and doing whatever it takes to do them, no matter who it inconveniences.

[@christophery8927]

Good story telling. Well done.

[@outstandingvegan]

Hey that’s an amazing journey thank you for sharing so great effore

[@kat7133]

I felt so sorry for all the airlines. They have jobs and family to take care. You have too much time on your hand.

[@GoodLifeInSpain]

One of the first things I learned in business school some 40 years ago is that "time is money". Why would anyone want a headache and that much stress for this? And, what...you're willing to travel 20+ hours from Canada to Algeria to get a discount?

[@williamwchuang]

Yeah it's just for the KZbin video

[@elizabethdostert7548]

So excited to see what her bonus will end up being Richard!

[@joellenlin1212]

you go Rachel!!

[@davidpaul6615]

Would love to experience first class but - 25 phone calls , too much aggravation nooooo thx. Maybe u have nothing better to do with your time but all that run a round & aggravation totally eliminates the benefit of first class.

[@jakefarmer3122]

Make her bonus 5x the likes, c'mon she's a warrior.

[@tavo_gus10]

100% uncalled for. I hope one day they put you on the NO-FLY list.

[@dealesun5585]

My guy disputed a visa issue fare and WON. amazing job man

[@cl5339]

Advertises he flew 1st class for $500. Had to book $660 one way from Spain to Algeria except that didn’t pan out. Paid $1670 in penalties to catch his 2nd connection from Paris to San Fran.

[@PrinceofTravel]

Didn’t pay the $1670. Got the $660 back.

[@cl5339]

@@PrinceofTravel Sorry, you were willing to pay the $1670 change fee. Costs not accounted for: 1. Flight to Barcelona 2. Hotel at Barcelona 3. Flight from Barcelona to Paris 4. Hotel at Paris for the 1 day delay 5. Costs associated with food waiting for the flight back. 6. Not your costs, but the cost/time loss you incurred to Lufthansa for you getting off the flight last minute and for them to grab your bags out of the cargo hold, inconveniencing your fellow travelers. 7. Time and energy for potentially calling for points refund for hopping off the Lufthansa flight. This was a cringy look behind the curtain.

[@PrinceofTravel]

Oh yeah - there were many other costs involved including those

[@voidsword8095]

for me, airline travel is just a tool not a goal so it's kinda hard to comprehend your motivation. nonetheless your experience is a useful example of how to get out of such situations and get things done when they need to be done.

[@guruoflove3083]

I admire your tenacity ...

[@carly200]

you are great a story telling. loved watching this video!

[@liviu1090]

could you tell us the whole cost of your "cheap trip"? Please include taxi or transport to airport, hotels and most importantly the Lufthansa 1st class ticket.

[@paulortiz2035]

And the cost of the flight back 'home'! (Just glad you don't live anywhere near me!)

[@osvaldohernandez5659]

I don’t dislike your channel , but I dislike how you didn’t care for fellow travellers when you removed yourself from that plane knowing you had checked your luggage , just to satisfy your need of flying AF first class. And yes, your assistant deserves a great bonus.

[@DaWhiteTyger]

FAR More than a weeks worth of likes, This is the epitome of people using others to further themselves and their careers... A useless flight and he bothers someone working legitly and doesn't even compensate correctly for it. Weeks worth of likes as a bonus? GTFO

[@davec8153]

It's messed up how he's now holding Rachel's bonus as hostage for likes too.

[@ursherettepaul3467]

I dislike him and his channel, my thoughts are...if you can't afford to travel in the class you can afford then DON'T!!! And his assistant/friend sounds stupid AF for jumping through all those hoops for his shallow disgusting a** and they wonder why people all over the world feel they way they do about them!🙄

[@ursherettepaul3467]

@@davec8153 He's an ahole and she's an idiot for dealing with him!🙄

[@Gunshinzero]

@@DaWhiteTyger He has 9k likes in two weeks. Even if she got half of that, how could getting $4500 for some phone calls be a bad deal? You must be a rich prick yourself.

[@fadyseif9823]

Gave a like just for the assistant’s hard work

[@martyrembecki]

I just want to be able to order a few Caesars and close my eyes when flying, but happy to hear you got what you wanted !!

[@moonyu1396]

I think you could’ve stopped at knowing that you got the first class ticket and gave us the story instead of inconveniencing the whole plane. We’ve all been flyers and I would be so angry at that one guy that caused everyone to be late because of his decision to fly a different flight for a video.

[@IzzyOnTheMove]

What a headache. Just earn the money, pay full price and enjoy, man. They shouldn't be able to downgrade you once you booked the ticket, the mistaken fare was their mistake, they should honor it. But if it sounds too good to be true... probably is. Your French is excellent by the way! 👍

[@GaetanDellaPietra]

I wouldn’t call this “beating”. But my compliments for your willpower.

[@tomasosores]

Man, this is sick!! Congratulations

[@MrPerfusionist]

I am impressed! Great video btw. I am now curious as to how the Air France experience will be !

[@gwmkwan]

You know you are a true traveller when a hot flight deal is a higher priority than your girlfriend 😂

[@okaykk]

I love stories like this! Subscribed!

[@samialkhammash1985]

With all the research, time, cost associated with travel to foreign country, changing travel dates, paying fines, stress and effort, etc.. actually it became cheaper to book first class outright from the nearest airport and travel like a king.

[@nikki.106]

feel sorry for Rachel

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

Let this be a lesson for you. He who travels light, travels fast ( and without anger.) A small cabin luggage should be adequate under these circumstances.

[@muslimabdullaev1414]

Subscribed!

[@danielonn2002]

You are a champ! This is so epic!

[@etrain88]

I dont normally upvote, but... rachel get that 💰

[@wilsonsamuel2469]

Rule 6. DO NOT travel LCCs anywhere, it will cause more pain. They dont give a hoot about you, your travel plans or your tickets. They exist purely for the sole reason to make money for their shareholders! thats it.

[@krin9437]

What does LCC stand for?

[@tnadg9521]

@@krin9437 i think low cost carriers

[@tajsingh9769]

What i've noticed is, you can tweet at them and if you complain, flights usually give you priority and fix things really fast.

[@AmuthanVethanayagam]

What a great story! Felt like watch a movie!!

[@siegfriedbraun5447]

Lesson 5, 6, 7 and 8; unless you are willing to spend $6,000 worth of time, energy and effort to "game the system", DON'T!!!

[@howardchen3456]

Not just the extra effort and cost to get this "deal" but he had some random travel date that kept getting pushed back because of denial of benefit. Who travels like that? Maybe a travel vlogger who's job is to document these experiences. He was traveling just to travel on a first class ticket. Not many people aspire just to fly different first class flight.

[@macsimuse4401]

I have to admit that Canadians make the attention of connection for me thnx 4 the good 👍

[@agungnugroho5997]

he beat the system! paid with hussle, salute!

[@zishanshaikh1751]

Biggest lesson: Cheap tickets can bought you a lot of hassle and uncertainty 😁

[@corpselizzy]

Buy

[@travelscholar]

Were you able to reinstate your LH miles? Or did you burn those award miles as part of your cost for Air France due to abandoning the LH flight at the last minute?

[@oktfg]

It’s was first product, which allows free rebooking or cancellation. Rachel was probably called upon again to spin another BS excuse to the Lufthansa miles and more call centre worker why this selfish jerk “had” to deplane. Only hope LH and AF watch this ad bans this guy from their systems

[@jonathanchester5916]

What an awesome story! I can't believe you made a rookie mistake with the check bag!!!

[@ScottMillar]

Impressive cant believe you went to all the hassle!

[@michaelreid8857]

I’m at the point of the video that AF is refusing to honour, his fare. I am going to state what I would do in such an incident. Since airline fares are codified, I first would point out to that agent, that they can verify it is an authentic fare. In the event they continued to refuse that ticket. Pull out your Amex, pay for the full fare. Then dispute the second charge, on the grounds that you were holding a valid ticket, that AF sold you, but arbitrarily refused to honour! This also, probably will save you the reissue fee! Let’s see, if I’m correct!

[@PrinceofTravel]

This would’ve also been a big brain move!

[@GoldenTeeTV]

@@PrinceofTravel he's also right, especially if your holding the right amex it would not nearly be a big of an issue. you would have no choice and you needed to get home or to whatever. it also wouldn't be that great of content so I get it :)

[@jonathandpg6115]

you might forever lose access to that airline in the future though and since the fare is high enough they may dispute it. How about not grow up to be a thief

[@paulortiz2035]

@@jonathandpg6115 how about just grow up, period!

[@onewithzen]

Traveling to 3-4 different countries...during a pandemic....missing out on sleep....wearing out your poor assistant all to take a first class flight that you didnt need to take to begin with?!?! Just pay the $15,000, fly when you actually need to, and call it a day! Sheesh. I havent flown commercial in years and no lounge,nice pj's,or semi private cabin will ever make me go back....entertaining episode though!

[@eddygurung]

Subscribed.

[@tdsimpson]

This was a brutal watch.

[@Philipngo95]

I was able to book that same deal back in 2020, but ended up canceling the ticket after they downgraded me. I didn't even know something like this was possible. But then again, do I really wanna go to all that?? A for efforts to you guys

[@PrinceofTravel]

Haha, most people probably wouldn't, to be fair. I kept having that same thought when I was going through the ordeal, but each time I concluded I was indeed crazy enough to continue

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[@Michael-tg4oh]

I have to give props for you go thru all these headaches just for a cheap first class. If I was you, I'm gladly airline cancel or refund my fare.

[@opalwolf2943]

this is the most finess I have seen in a while I am trying to book a cheap flight to Boston from Turkey bc I booked a 1 way to save money...anyway I was like do I need an e-visa if I stop by denmark ? I was like calculating risk of a 10hr delay...I even researched how to get into the lounge, but after looking at all my options I decided to wait for a better deal bc the stress level was Elite !!!

[@sebetch7442]

You actually lost the game big time, how much tickets you had to buy in different airlines in all the journey? What happened with your lufthansa flight? You also lost that money. Maybe with air france you got a discounted ticket but at the end of the day that same ticket was responisble for you buying tickets on 3 different airlines. Seems a very good strategy for airline industry

[@justindube7462]

Managed to book Flair Airlines to las vegas for 7$... hope they won't cancel my ticket

[@user-ls2jg7vl2h]

How?

[@danielonn2002]

I booked Vuelling LGW ORY $120 with luggage. $75 ORY to PRG $200 PRG to TLV via WAW. From TLV I booked Condor Lufthansa from TLV to FRA and Condor FRA to SFO for $870 in Premium Class from FRA to SFO. Our Virgin flight booked with Carnival is $570 SFO LHR.. In February I booked SFO to Phuket for $970 on Singapore air with seats I went on Skyscanner and chose to book direct with the airline

[@creationsoffarzid1154]

A great fact based story for highlighting the hazard vs luck of life patterns and life lessons .