

This is a fairly disconnected statement “ever” includes
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discount fares
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regional flights
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vacations taken as a kid
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flights paid for in whole or in part by parties with more cash
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saving money for a long time
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flights paid for when one had a better financial position or after a windfall
Generalistically people are poor because they are thousands to tens of dollars per year underneath where they would need to be to be middle class. For instance earning 20,000 per year less than a middle class family x 20 years = $400,000 less Whereas you are wondering how people can possibly be poor because they had $350 once ever. This is like those weird fucks who think people who have smart phones can’t be poor.
Also worrying about the environmental impact of poor people flying once back in 1995 is … probably moot.
Let me help you with some math and logic. If 52% of people have flown in the past year and 70% of those flights were leisure then 0.52x0.7 = 0.364 or 36.4% flew for leisure in the last year and 63.6% did not.
Presumably the 2/3 who didn’t fly for vacation also didn’t spend 3000 and change which is hint just what a bank told you it should cost not how much people especially poor people are actually spending. There is a massive disparity between the haves and have nots in America.
Tldr: they aren’t living paycheck to paycheck because they spent 3000 they are doing so because shit is expensive. People also aren’t poor because they eat too much avocado toast.