The Y-Pax Detainment thread by CATallGuy obviously struck nerve with a lot of posters. More than one response tried to bait him with unsubstantiated defamation or call him out as a mere troll. What's sad is his thread shows once again that class warfare seems to be alive and well in the airline market.

People jockey back and forth and do everything they can to game the system and get a little sliver of an edge over the next guy with slightly less status or a lower priced ticket. There's nothing new about that, but the level of openness and pride shown by the premium pax side really left me a little taken aback.

I think we can agree that this forum's main purpose is to pass along tips for how to play the system as close to the limits as possible and to provide a discussion area for folks who felt their status level or premium cabin experience left something to be desired. Fair enough, but when the gloves come off you tend to see the disgusting underside of this almost blindly competitive drive.

I think CATallGuy made the critical error of trying to stick up for the little guy on a forum dominated by middle-rung pax and their wannabes. Almost none of the responses I read truly answered his question and most inadvertently seemed to prove his point even further through their own proud arrogance. CATallGuy wasn't disputing the benefit to premium pax, he was just pointing out what a tacky and possibly illegal effect it had on coach passengers.

Since average non-status coach passengers don't have much of a voice on here, outside of how to get status, it probably shouldn't have been a surprise how everything unfolded. Still, I just wanted to mention that it's bothersome to me to see people make such bold comments about money equals perks and power and how that's the way it always should be.

Am I the only person on here who's dismayed by these comments? Am I the only poster who gets a bit of a sick feeling when I read some of the more arrogant trip reports and realize that this came from a fellow American here in the 21st century?