A trip of a lifetime

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, we embarked on a 29-day cruise to New Zealand. We'd always wanted to visit there, but the prospect of 8,000 miles crammed into a 31.0" x 17.2" space was less than appealing. We didn't have enough frequent flyer miles to go first class and we weren't willing to pay first class fares, which were almost 10 times the coach class fare. I read something in USA Today on one of our travels that said the profit margin for first class is something like five times the amount as for coach class. Airlines could certainly lower the price of a first-class ticket, but they don't because so many business travelers on expense accounts are willing to pay the price. At any rate, the cruise was way more fun than a flight could ever be.