Why Famous People Get On Airplanes Before Everyone Else

Name: Why Famous People Get On Airplanes Before Everyone Else
Uploaded: 2023-10-22T00:34:52+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this short YouTube segment, Sam Parr recounts a first‑class flight where he sat next to Stephen A. Smith and wondered how the celebrity boarded before…

22 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube segment, Sam Parr recounts a first‑class flight where he sat next to Stephen A. Smith and wondered how the celebrity boarded before him. He discovers that famous individuals often have access to a private boarding door. The conversation then shifts to an entrepreneurial pitch: a listener proposes a service that makes commercial air travel feel like private travel by offering a "back‑door" boarding experience for high‑ticket‑price passengers, promising to escort them onto the plane like a rock star. This idea was pitched to a major airline, which has since begun implementing similar exclusive boarding practices, indicating that the concept is moving from novelty to industry adoption.

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I flew first class from New York to LA one time, and I get on, I was 1A, and 1B, or sitting right next to me, was Stephen A. Smith. And I was like, how the fuck did you get on the plane before me? I like looked it up, and apparently there is like a private door, I guess, if you're famous. What is that?
About 8 years ago, I said, I have an idea that's bigger than Marquis Jet. I wanted to make commercial travel feel like private travel. For example, if I could buy a first class ticket for $1,500, I, as a $1,500 ticket holder, would gladly give you another $1,500, United, American, Delta, Frontier, whoever, if If you could walk me through a back door and make me feel like Mick Jagger and escort me onto the airplane. I actually pitched this to a major airline now that's doing it. No one was doing it. And now they are doing stuff like that.