Originally Posted by Coastiejoe
The seats are not stolen as far as money goes. Way back, there were a few methods on how the seats were paid for or justified. You may feel we steal the seat from you, but the cost is covered.
As I understand it. Every airline writes off the tickets in the form of a deduction for tax reasons at full fair. So they are writing off the value at a considerably higher rate than what the public can buy the ticket for as well as not handing them out in the form of upgrades.
You may truly believe this, but it isn't true. Do a search and you will find lots of contrary evidence. As
sbrower said, your management has chosen to purposefully deceive you (that's called "lying" in ordinary English) to serve a political agenda.
I can virtually guarantee you that the two (at least) airline CEOs who testified before congressional committees about the circumstances under which they are required to carry air marshals
for free in premium seats were not lying to the Congress (which is a Federal offense, incidentally).
Final point: Tax deductions have no value when you have no income!!!
Bruce