1st Class Upgrade

10/06/2009

Another day, another airplane, or so it seems – this time it is Air Tran 827 heading to Milwaukee, blue sky dotted with…blah, blah, blah!  You know the routine by now; however, this time there is a twist to standard litany. I treated myself to a well deserved First Class upgrade. 

It has been so long since I last did this for myself that I really have no memory of it.  For most flights I go United (an airline I would rather not even fool with) or Southwest (you know, the one without assigned seating or a first class section), and most of my trips are not much more than an hour to ninety minutes of flight time.  This one is smacking up on two hours, and since I will be on a plane a number of times over the next two months, I decided I would spend the $49.00 and treat myself to the wider seat and better snacks (real potato chips, saltier pretzels).  Is it worth it?  No!  The wider seat is a nice feature, but I am so used to squeezing in a seat barely wide enough for a small toddler, this one seems as if I am swimming in it.  As for the snacks, well, there was a wide selection of chips, pretzels and cookies, and I suppose the selection provided is worth something.  After all, satisfaction in this life in nothing more than possibilities and choices, right?

There are twelve seats in the first class section and only half of them are being used.  The main cabin is completely full with people who are way too smart to spend $49.00 to sit up here next an idiot who would pay $49.00 for a bag of chips and an opportunity to have something to drink prior to liftoff.  I suppose I am lucky in one respect.  The main cabin customers don’t get to use the forward lavatory.  Ha, Ha, Ha!  I get to take a $49.00 pee pee.  What a lucky guy I am.  And here I was beginning to think I wasted $49.00.

And that is all I have to say about that…