Originally Posted by
jetsetter
I can never understand why the media does not call out US on this policy, because the "regular" flyers in the general public probably have no idea of the policy when they buy tickets.
You're exactly right. My non-Preferred co-workers were ecstatic one day when they paid $25 at the airport and got seats on an earlier US flight; "wow, all we had to do was to pay $25!"