Originally Posted by sbtinme
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.
As a point of clarification, this thread was started nearly a year ago. And most of the on-topic discussion was concluded in August of 2004.
Another poster dredged this thread up from the archives a couple days ago and started a discussion on FAM's which continues today.
While I'll agree that the current discussion has little to do with the thread title, I think it's close enough that we'll let it proceed.
As far as threads wandering, this happens so frequently on Internet BB's that it's often called "birdwalking".
If you follow threads on most any active BB, it certainly helps if you are able to mentally separate the wheat from the chaff.