I'd pay it and like it. Air travel was a lot more enjoyable when a lot fewer people could afford it. Now it just sucks. It's like Las Vegas and nearly everything else. Instead of getting first-class service at a price, you get cheapo service from people who look like they woke up under a bridge, whose IQ matches their hat size, and care about their job as much as they care about a cockroach on the sidewalk. Does everything in life have to be cheap cookie-cutter plastic Burger King crap? It disgusts me how people are no only satisfied with it, they prefer it. This is America, we shouldn't be choosing to be treated like damn dogs.
I'd rather drive for two days than fly for 6 hours. /rant off