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Old Jan 7, 2009 | 12:41 pm
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Originally Posted by StevieJ
IMO CE is a waste of money. All you get (besides extra TPs) is food on a china plate. Seems to me folks on here only travel CE as they like a bit of DYKWIA and the fact their company pays. AS a gold or silver you get the ground benefits anyway.


Originally Posted by StevieJ
And those loads will reduce further as more and more of you premium flyers are forced by your companies to fly Y instead of C or F.
I have heard talk of a leaked Waterworld memo doing the rounds today. It apparently proposes that one new way to increase yields in these difficult times will be to implement a new policy requiring certain Y and W pax to purchase an extra adjacent seat at full fare. Apparently it will be spun as stemming from new IATA regulations about chips being a hazard if left on shoulders in flight, and thus requiring their own paid, assigned (but not necessarily pre-assigned) seat…
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