<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Randy Petersen:
I hear you but you will probably be dissapointed to learn that I don't favor special lines for elite flyers. I fly with the best of them and have more miles than i care to count sometime, but I'm also a taxpayer and now that the Feds have taken over the responsibility, don't think it right for taxpayer dollars to support special lines. Why? Honestly, it has more to do with my pragmatic understanding of the infrastructure that airports are working with today. I really haven't found the lines to be of any concern to me now that things aren't as screwed up as they initially were, and I just went in and out of Salt Lake City which arguably has the most attention for this right now because of the Olympics. Airports are public facilities to my understanding and public places really can't cater to private interests. Airlines can and do what they want for their best customers, but airports have all customers in mind when they try and offer services.

So, I'll take the heat on this one but at least I'm not changing my stripes. I was quoted over 2 months ago as predicting that the government would take this action and was fine with it. I can't and won't change my mind now that it is here. Sorry. Now, you can start tossing the tomatoes......</font>