<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PineyBob:
Why would you feel the least bit guilty? You made the system created by the airlines out of greed work for you! ...
Profit is not a PineyBob problem! No one held a gun to B Ben Baldanza's head and forced him to charge me that price. ...
I mean I Am not supposed to leverage the contract to my advantage? Fairness and airline profit NEVER enter into my equation ever! </font>
Let me put it this way. I want my vendors to be making money (a little bit anyway). When I'm flying on a fare that comes to to around 4 cents/flown mile including taxes yet consuming a service that I _know_ costs far more than that, it's not in the vendor's interest. And it's not necessarily the best in the long run because if the vendor can't make a profit then I may not be able to buy from them again in the future.
That said, I'm in full burning mode right now with respect to airline miles. That IAD-SEA flight cleaned out the remaining e-upgrades I had. I was actually hoping (for UA's sake) that my upgrade didn't clear because there were enough people on international C tickets or 1Ks flying that an el cheapo customer like myself would get the service that he paid for. (not much in this case)