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A first-class ticket on a plane is no cheap expense. Some tickets can cost north of 7,000 dollars. One secret that airlines won’t tell you is that they don’t actually make money from selling first-class airfares. Airlines make money from frequent flyer miles. They make strategic partnerships with credit card companies and make a lot more money than we can dream of on your simple daily purchases. The trade-off for the airline is worth it. Airlines make billions of dollars a year from frequent flyer credit cards. Your trade-off is the fact that you can get to the airport and only add a couple hundred bucks to upgrade to first.