Which opens up new possibilities for refreshingly hypocrisy-free procedures:
"I have an announcement to make. We have four people who need to board this plane and they are more important than any of you. So I need four of you out of your seats. In return, you'll get a free bag of peanuts and a taxi ride to the Greyhound depot.
Let's see....you, you, you....and you.
Now GET THE LEAD OUT, MAGGOTS!!"
Do you *really* think that that was their first approach to this guy? Or their second...third...or fourth?