<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by flyrights:
The fare one paid for a ticket should in no way give priority in flight cancelation situations... It is simply a random way of determining priority which has NO corrolation to how urgently one passenger may have to get to their destination. </font>
You're losing me here- isn't time of check in an even more "random way of determining priority which has NO corrolation to how urgently one passenger may have to get to their destination," which would also fall under your definition of "legal discrimination"?
If I need to get somewhere in a hurry, I don't show up six hours before a flight that I booked two+ weeks in advance- I either buy a full-fare ticket (work travel) or use a AAnytime/rule-buster/etc. ticket (personal travel).