[Lorianne]

I don't know what they are complaining about. I wouldn't want to pay $7,500, per year plus $2,700 per domestic flight or $3,000 per international flight .. on top of my ticket, which for these people is probably a $3,000 first class ticket. It better be nice for that much money.

[IncPen]

I’m all for free enterprise.

That said, the regulators, TSA, Homeland, local police, FAA, unions, media and assorted meddlers have conspired to make air travel miserable.

I say that until that’s all sorted out there is no ‘upper class’. Make the ‘rich’ ride with the peasants. And watch things improve quickly.

Shame on the airlines for taking this filthy money.

[JennysCool]

Gavin de Becker is famous for running a security firm. Kind of weird he’s shilling for this.

[lee martell]

The ipad showing the poor, tired and numbly bored regular passengers being shepherded through the airport lines should be called something like ‘The Schadenfreude Voyeur’, for you dining pleasure!”.

It would be funny if the receiving monitors in the load up area could see back into the exclusive section, due to some malfunction. A two-way mirror!

[Kickass Conservative]

Let them eat Cake?

[a fool in paradise]

How many congress-critters are using it?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

On the one hand, free enterprise is good and if you can afford better service, good for you. On the other, having screens displaying the travails of “the commoners” for the viewing pleasure of the Herr Elite is gauche to the least, and many of the advantages of this sort are not the result of capitalism, but crony-capitalism. For example, it appears, reading the article, that the beautiful people using this service don’t have to follow the same screening procedures as the rest of us.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

Back in the 70s and 80s LAX still allowed private aviation to use the airport. Private like in Cessnas, Mooneys and the like. Several times I flew down from Santa Barbara to pick up friends and family. Their use to be a General Aviation terminal to park at. Its long gone..... Those were cool days.

[Mark]

Okay, who gets the two scoops of ice cream?

[Finalapproach29er]

This is Democrat liberalism. Misery for most but the elite get to be exempt.
On ANIMAL FARM some are more equal than others.

Reminds me of the Communist elite of the old USSR.They weren’t affected by they’re idiotic rules of governance.

[Reno89519]

Federal money? Members of Cress get use?

[deadrock]

This is exactly how healthcare will end up.

[Born to Conserve]

I’m not in the 1%, but I avoid public buses like the plague (literally?). Driving is not as efficient as public transportation, but I value not having to be among the trash. The dividing line is relative — if I had more means, I would raise the criteria. I know people who have “more money than God”, and they eat places I could never afford, but they don’t have to tolerate my worn shoes and home cut hair. If I had the means, I’d buy new shoes, pay $300 for a hair trim, and leave all of you behind!

God bless the free market.

[Ace's Dad]

I don't know what they are complaining about. I wouldn't want to pay $7,500, per year plus +

$7,500 is nothing, "Ace," my jet airline captain flies for a group that owns their own jet + a backup! They fly out to ? ("Ace" doesn't fly and tell!) I have a pic of me in the A/C for proof. It's a CRJ-900 set up for executive international flights.

The truly successful call $7,500 a "tip."

"Ace" provides me with a VIP airline membership because families don't have flight privileges with his employers. First Class is OK with me, a simple Navy officer, who backed the "right horse" Ace.

[alexander_busek]

I don't know what they are complaining about. I wouldn't want to pay $7,500, per year plus $2,700 per domestic flight or $3,000 per international flight .. on top of my ticket, which for these people is probably a $3,000 first class ticket.

Why wouldn't you want to pay that?! That's chicken feed! Right?

Regards,

[Chaguito]

Communist agitprop from the Guardian.