You got me. I'm 32 and didn't even realize I could fly up front until I was about 27 or so. We didn't do a lot of flying as kids either - just a couple of trips to Disney World. US Airways trial silver got me into the game.

Definitely OT for this thread, but I keep telling my wife that our daughter (2) is going to have some pretty unrealistic travel standards that are going to come crashing in eventually. Kind of like when I finished college, moved to Northern Virginia and realized that I indeed was not going to instantly have a 3000 sq ft house like we did growing up (in a low cost of living area). I live in Maine now, don't have 2/3 of that square footage, but at least I'm not still paying the mortgage on my 400k, 900 sq ft "house"