Originally Posted by
livitup
You know, this is a good analogy and to expand on it a little bit, it seems that a few posters to this thread are OK with them chaining the gates to steerage class shut when the water starts pouring into the boat. When irrops slam a hub, I don't have a problem with UA using status to decide who gets on the lifeboats first, but they damn well better make sure there are enough life boats around for
all the passengers, and they better not kick someone out of their seat on the lifeboat to give it to a status holder.
I've got no personal experience here, but it seems like some say this happens, and even worse, some think it should happen.
I have to say, if I was a frequent traveller on the Titantic (they never did publish how to obtain Titanic Global Services (TGS)) you're darn skippy that I'd want a place in the lifeboat instead of some lowly GM!
But since we're not talking about emergency exit procedures from an aircraft (though, one could argue, 1Ps and up get to depart first since they get exit rows), I think travel purveyors throughout history would be happy to tell you that they treat they're high paying customers better during any irregular operations.