Happy Thursday morning, everybody, welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast, the podcast for location independent entrepreneurs.

We used that location independence this past week

to fly to the great city of New York to hang out with 25, 7, and 8 figure founders. And we come here

today to share with you the lessons we learned from them. So we can all grow better location

independent businesses. Now one thing I want to mention here at the top, is I originally sent you an incredible

itinerary that was very affordable.

I remember.

And you balked at it.

You didn't take my itinerary.

And I think it might be worth sharing how you select an airline in 2025.

Well, just to be clear, don't hate me for saying this, but you haven't always been in our relationship, the guy that's as cost-conscious as I am, but I feel like the tables are turning. I'm willing to put us into the front of the airplane on occasion. I'll just put it that way. You are. And you sent a great itinerary. The problem was it was Spirit Airlines. And I didn't know this.

Yeah, I've flown Spirit before. But to be fair, they're cheap. And United was twice as expensive,

basically what we flew on. But not too long ago, I had some pilots come to my house. Nice guys.

In their civilian uniforms. In their civilian uniforms, nice guys.

I would love to eat lunch with them, but I wouldn't necessarily consider them pilots.

I've met a fair amount of pilots. And you just feel comfortable getting in the back of the airplane behind these guys.

Fast forward, there were Spirit Airlines pilots.

And I just said that's kind of it for me.

I understand that there's a low cost associated with this, but I'm going to United.

There's a marketing medicine in there somewhere.

Well, I just had to bring it up because for you to pay a 100% premium on a product, it's worth noting.

All right, let's get into it.

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