Originally Posted by jaysona

I am asking this in all seriousness, because for the life of me I can not fathom why people want this.

I was at an outing a few weeks ago with a few friends, some of whom have just become SD's and the topic of SE's and the Concierge/VIP service came up.

None of us could understand why anyone who has that level of status would even need an escort to the gate - except for the case of late/tight connections.

The logic being that in order to achieve SE or higher, the person has had to have flown quite a bit and therefore has an idea of how to navigate an airport. So, given that people have airport navigation experience, why the need to have an escort through security and to the gate - other than the case of time constraints?