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Old Aug 2, 2005 | 10:07 am
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This guy is ridiculous:

"I don't like it. I think everybody should be treated the same."
When he flies more than once a year or forks out more than the cheapest discounted Y fare, maybe he can complain. It makes no sense for the airlines to cater to fliers on whom they make no money; the elites who fly often and those who pay for F fares are the ones from which they want to keep the business.

Another person with no clue as to economics:

"What's the deal here?" asked Jill Horist, as she and her 11-year-old son waited in the slow lane. "It's this kind of thing that's annoying. If you pay a couple extra bucks, you get a shorter line? Everyone pays for security."
First class or elite status does not cost "a couple of extra bucks." And they all miss the point that the TSA doesn't run the lines, so the argument that "we all pay for security" is not valid, either (and, at most airports, if the elite lines are really empty and the standard lines are long, the staff moves people between them to speed it up for everyone)
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