Low-Fare Trash, Unite!

Are you a valued, elite, premiere airline customer or low-fare trash? Yeah, me too! And proud of it.

I ask because I’ve noticed an uptick lately in the contempt level for us folks in the back of the plane. Sometimes it’s subtle, as when United Airlines refers to its “most-valued guests,” raising the inescapable notion that the rest of us are “least-valued.” Sometimes it’s more obvious, as when an analyst mentions “low-fare trash” or cabin crew call their passengers “chavs.”

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