Folks --

I first stumbled onto this thread a few days back and was just checking in to see if DL had issued any statements or advisements on the OP's reported observation.

To my disappointment, I find that this thread has gone way over the deep end. Everyone is yelling at everyone else over tertiary issues and personal opinions that, in large measure, have nothing to do with the core of what the OP wrote.

I hate it when FT postings do this. The issue is that someone claims to have witnessed an AM get comped (off duty) into F displacing some elite pax who were playing by the standardized DL rules and in the "UG queue." Isn't that what this is all about?

Why don't we just focus on that? I'm outta here.