'do You Know What A First Class Ticket Costs?' Why Barbara Corcoran Flies Coach

Barbara Corcoran chooses to alert coach connected airplanes, moreover though nan self-made multimillionaire and "Shark Tank" investor tin walk first-class tickets.

In an conception of The Jamie Kern Lima Show that aired past week, Corcoran explained why she flies coach. Her rationale started pinch nan incredulous question, "Do you cognize what a first-class summons costs?"

"The measurement I fig it, a coach summons is astir 25% of a first-class ticket," Corcoran said.

As of Tuesday, a first-class summons connected Delta Air Lines from New York to Chicago successful January costs astatine slightest $125 overmuch and successful galore cases double nan worth of economy.

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Corcoran pays attraction to nan value erstwhile she flies and views flying coach arsenic a measurement to springiness free trips to her family. As a predominant flier, she accumulates hose miles that she tin past redeem for free flights.

"I get nan free miles, I tin springiness them away," Corcoran said. "I personification everybody successful my family flying connected my free miles. What's overmuch important, that everybody gets vacations aliases that I'm comfortable successful first class?"

Barbara Corcoran. Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Corcoran acknowledged successful nan mobility and reply that she could walk to do immoderate — springiness everyone vacations and alert first class. The self-made millionaire made her luck by trading her existent spot institution The Corcoran Group successful 2001 for $66 million; she now makes astir $4.5 cardinal a twelvemonth from her investments.

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Even though she tin walk it, she's not going to alert first class.

Instead, Corcoran says she'll "be successful coach emotion really smug" because she knows her recreation will output "three level tickets that could return personification somewhere."

Corcoran likewise thinks of her family erstwhile it comes to her various properties. She revealed successful nan mobility and reply that she has a scheduling strategy truthful that nan group she knows and loves tin enactment astatine her homes while she's not successful them. They enactment astatine her skis chalet, her statement house, and her location successful New York.

"There's not a azygous furnishings successful immoderate of my homes that's ever empty," Corcoran said.

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