<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mdtony:
Folks, it's called rewarding your best customers. Look, businesses do that all the time. The neighborhood bartender slips the regulars a beer or two for free from time to time.
So why should the airlines be any different?</font>
The airlines shouldn't be any different, but the federal government should. The federal government isn't allowed to discriminate at the discretion of third parties (the airlines). I think that's what the woman was upset about.
It's fine for your neighborhood bartender to give you a free drink, or for the airline to bump you up to first class. It's not fine for the government to give some people VIP treatment and others no special treatment when everyone is paying the same $2.50 fee.
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