"Whether you realize it or not, the majority of us are still riding through life in
coach class," she writes.
Tim Geithner had been spotted in
coach class on a domestic flight.
The company is offering a vacation consisting of roundtrip booking for economy or
coach class travel, from Los Angeles on Spirit Airlines, and three nights' stay at any of the participating properties in Las Vegas, for prices commencing at USD335 per person.
The 13-day/10-night package visits Melbourne and Cairns and includes international
coach class air from Los Angeles; internal
coach class air in Australia; roundtrip private airport transfers; five nights in Melbourne; a Yarra Valley tour; a Savannah Walkabout Wildlife tour; a Lanes and Arcades Walking tour; five nights in Cairns (First Class) or Port Douglas (Deluxe); a Great Barrier Reef tour; Tablelands, Waterfalls and Spanish Castles; a Highlander Food Trail tour; 10 breakfasts; and seven lunches.
The itinerary includes international
coach class air from New York (JFK); private roundtrip airport transfers; internal coach-class flights in Egypt; four nights in Cairo at Swiss Inn Golf Pyramids; private Memphis, Sakkara, Pyramids and Sphinx full-day tour; private Egyptian Museum, Citadel and Mosques full-day tour; four-night Nile River Cruise from Luxor to Aswan aboard Movenpick Radamis I; all excursions while cruising; one night in Cairo at Novotel Cairo Airport; entrance fees to sights as listed in itinerary; and nine breakfasts, four lunches and four dinners.
FUZE Refresh is made by Coca Cola and is a fruit-smoothie infusion made of real juice, without artificial preservatives or colours, fortified with 7 essential vitamins and calcium and will be available in plastic bottles at USD3 each to
coach class passengers.
According to Travelocity, the airfare part would cost about $1,500 a person (
coach class), or $225 million for 150,000 troops.
While Pollan writes about what's happening in Lear jets across America, the real revolution is taking place in commercial
coach class. Normal grocery shoppers no longer have to agonize over the choice between settling for mealy apples or springing for the pricier exotics like mangoes or hothouse strawberries.