But these are first-class trips.

"It was a first-class trip," said Mr. Maleh, 36, a children's clothing manufacturer.

A one-way first-class trip on the hydrofoil, scheduled for an hour and a half, is about $35.

Mr. Rinehart acted like he was on a first-class trip to Paris.

She moved to Washington in 1985 and lived what associates and documents show to have been in grand style, with a $5,000-a-month apartment and first-class trips all over the world.

Two, three months of waiting to make things look good, and then it's a one-way first-class trip to Costa Rica.

My mother was addicted to being rich, to servants and unlimited charge accounts, to giving lavish dinner parties, to taking frequent first-class trips to Europe.

For Whittaker, it meant a first-class trip to New York and back, and generous expenses.

On your left, you passed the inside of a posh, elegant airliner's fuselage that was the dining area of a first-class trip.

In 2013, the relationship attracted some controversy for a first-class overseas trip paid from government funds.