Woman refuses to go on boyfriend's family vacation after discovering she's the only one without a business class ticket to the trip

Is this a valid reason to be upset about a paid dream vacation?

Having someone in your life willing to pay for you to go on your dream vacation is not something that happens to many people. Most of us have to work hard so we can save money and take ourselves on vacation; no one else will do that for us. We work, we save money, and we go on a much-earned vacation that we paid for ourselves. That is the way things go.

If you know someone, whether it is a family member or a close friend, rich enough that they're willing to spend their own money for you to go on a vacation with them, well, you might want to hold on tight to them. 

We're not saying that you should take advantage of a person like that, or fake a friendship with them just because of their money, but if you enjoy spending time with this person, maybe make sure they know it.

The woman below, however, is not really grateful to know someone willing to pay for her dream vacation…

Woman sitting in a seat on an airplane.

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“AITAH for telling my girlfriend to be just happy with an economy ticket and stop complaining?”

My brother has had a very successful career and is pretty rich. No gold-plated dunnies or a Monaco yacht but well-off (~$500k TC this year). The rest of us earn the median wage at most. We are heading off on a family trip in 2 months and we usually fly economy since we are peasants BUT he surprised us with business class return tickets. For context, the family is me, my parents and his wife. This was the original plan which we discussed late last year.

Since then, my gf of 2 years has joined in on the trip as my parents really like her and my bro (who's organising the trip) gets along really well with her. He asked her to tag along as the place we are going to is one of her dream destinations and bought her a ticket. The thing is, she thought we were flying together in business class but my bro got her an economy return ticket. He didn't want to pay the high business class price tag which I thought was fair but my gf seems to think it's a dog thing to do. Have everyone but one person fly business class as it's 'excluding' her. I guess she's upset cause I've been raving about flying in business class as I never have before (she hasn't either).

Man sitting in business class seat on an airplane.

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You would think the girlfriend would be happy that she gets to join her boyfriend and his family on a vacation to her dream destination, but all she could think of is how unfair it is that she's the only one without a business class ticket.

We understand that it might not be nice to sit alone in economy while everyone else is in business, but is enduring this really not worth the end goal?

Sounds quite petty to us…

The thing is, he bought her a ticket. Like, he paid for it! Yeah it's not business class, you won't be sitting with the rest of us but you're on the plane... For free! I tried explaining this to her but she's not that happy with the arrangement. My bro said she'll have to pay her share of accomodation and stuff which I'm more than happy to help her out with. The ticket though, I cannot help with. It's pricey af and I'd barely be able to make a dent in it. She thinks my brother is favouring the immediate family or something (which isn't even a wrong thing to do, it's expected if anything).

SHE'S GETTING A FREE PLANE TICKET! WHO GETS MAD AT A FREE PLANE TICKET?? I need some outside perspectives cause I thought she'd be ecstatic and instead she's in a pi**y mood.

 

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