In recently booking flights online for us from Baltimore to Panama for January 2014, my wife and I ended up several rows apart. Jane, who did the booking, was paying cash for her ticket and using miles for mine. The miles upgraded me to something like "economy elite," in row 16, leaving Jane back in steerage in rows 20, 22, or 24 on different legs despite attempts to choose different seats. We hope we can work something out at the gate so that we're sitting together.
While it's disappointing that American Airlines is trying to turn our marriage into a class struggle, it's just a sign of the times. In the Sunday, July 7, 2013, New York Times, the novelist, editor and biographer James Atlas wrote about the airlines' slicing and dicing of its passengers into various classes with wildly different flying experiences although all are on the same plane. Click HERE for a link to his article.
While it's disappointing that American Airlines is trying to turn our marriage into a class struggle, it's just a sign of the times. In the Sunday, July 7, 2013, New York Times, the novelist, editor and biographer James Atlas wrote about the airlines' slicing and dicing of its passengers into various classes with wildly different flying experiences although all are on the same plane. Click HERE for a link to his article.
