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How is it that airlines are allowed to give these government employees free gifts of airline ticket upgrades and first-class seating? Shouldn't these gifts be reportable under some good-government anti-bribery law?

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How is it that airlines are allowed to give these government employees free gifts of airline ticket upgrades and first-class seating?

Frequent flyers often get upgrades. On my flights to Chicago and back (to Dallas) I occasionally get moved up to business class and I don't fly even nearly as often as a senator.