Originally Posted by
JSprague24
One underrated perk of FO is the free premium and exit row seats. For two people, we're somewhere around $1,700 this year in fees we otherwise would've had to pay for C+ and Exit seats (which are sometimes $60+ per person even on short-haul flights).
I don't miss knee-knocker seats.
Fair.
And in practice, if you (and other FOs) didn’t use your FO status to choose those preferred seats, they probably would have gone to BE pax who get last minute seat assignments at the gate.
But that is a benefit that essentially costs Delta nothing to provide. And if it rewards customers like you playing the loyalty game more than customers being cheap and buying BE, even better.