On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:52:51 +0000, Neil Williams
wrote:

On 2017-01-19 20:05:19 +0000, tim... said:

who the **** values a small amount of extra comfort at that?

Someone who basically has unlimited money. Affordability becomes moot,
so they buy a flight like that just as you or I might be a bit peckish
and buy a chocolate bar without much thought.

Someone that rich certainly wouldn't want to travel in a
not-particularly-large business class seat along with up to 47
strangers (the only slightly -- by 2.4m -- smaller BA318s have just 32
business class seats). They might prefer, for example, to travel in
The Residence, a private three-room suite in the sky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGQIgZAGGfE

http://thepointsguy.com/2015/12/etih...idence-review/

Or they'd use their own, or a leased, truly private jet, not shared
with dozens of strangers. For example, a former boss of mine has a
whole fleet of private planes, and he chooses the right one for a
particular journey). He is a qualified pilot, but of course also
employs professional pilots for longer trips (eg, California to Cape
town via London). This is one of the types he operates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfstream_G550