Originally Posted by aircanada_loyal

I usually do not comment on TRs, but since I am planning to go to NRT and SIN, via SFO in a few weeks I read your article.

At the outset, I am a Super-Elite with Air Canada (*G), and have had this status for number of years.

What's REALLY unusual in your TR are what I have highlighted above, and allow me to comment. I usually travel in J, and if in Y I get myself upgraded using my e-upgrades. Sometimes I am confirmed right away, and at other times I get upgraded at check-in, gate, and sometimes it never happens because J is full with revenue passengers. Traveling is tiring in itself, and I have realized there are more important things in life, than losing an e-upgrade. Health and happiness are more important. You dust yourself, and move forward.

Secondly, I was a bit disgusted with your TR, where you said: "And I had missed the opportunity to board ahead of the unwashed masses!" REALLY? So, people who board later, never wash themselves, and it's only priority passengers who really wash themselves? I have been traveling for decades, and I often meet high-level professionals, students, young and old, beautiful and ugly, etc... who board later and follow rules (simply because they do not have status), and I can guarantee there is no difference in their odour as compared to priority passengers. If you tell me those masses are "unwashed", I think your perception is very wrong. Smell them the next time you travel, and I look forward to your TR. Likewise, I encourage you to travel on an alliance where you do not have status, maybe in India or somewhere in Africa, with 400+ other passengers, and have fun. North America is much more civilized when it comes to boarding, as compared to many other countries. We complain on the smallest thing, but you only appreciate what we have until and unless you experience boarding somewhere else in the world, and where you do not have status with that airline. Have fun!