I fail to see how it is tacky. I fly economy quite a bit and am normally near the front. The people coming out of J have paid, one way or another, to be there so I patiently wait my turn. This is much better than having a huge cluster.... at the door when you have two rows of traffic going through the one exit. There are probably as many J passengers as there are in the first 3 rows of coach. They can easily get their things and get out. This is much better than having to have two rows of traffic wait as they combine. In many cases, the people who have paid to be up front have very important things to attend to and that is why they have chosen to pay to be there. They paid to have the perk and they deserve it.

It seems very much like people who think it is tacky just hate that other people have priviledges that they don't. They're probably the same people that hit the lav up front when they aren't supposed to.

For those who think it is tacky, I suggest that you fly something like Southwest where all of their customers are VIP's (aka treated equally poorly) and you won't have to deal with the issue. After all, if this were a big deal then the revenue would drive the policy change.