ghostwrita - I do know exactly you mean. And I very much agree as a general point.

But ...... I also feel that sometimes in life (and with the aim of reducing our personal stress factor ....! ) we just have to adopt a sort of 'That's the way of the world' philosophy.

Premiership footballers - whose average annual earnings are stratospheric when measured by all normal standards - are never asked to pay to get into nightclubs ..... the sort which will rigorously enforce charges for those existing on rather more humble pay cheques !

Maybe EK like the idea of their lounges having as many 'glamorous' (a description always in the eye of the beholder of course !) users as possible.