There is no safety premium for first class anyway, but while they may get a gov rate, they are not banking on an upgrade. Especially into and out of DC. Airlines don’t have a ton of first class inventory going spare in that market.
No problem. I didn't mean to imply any criticism of either your fact checking or especially your initial skepticism, which I fully support. I am just delighted that it's true.
Actually I was able to fact check this in a matter of literal seconds.
edit: clearer example from a different article. Lots of sites have a paywall, but you can usually see enough to verify that everything lines up. The library of congress has a lot of old newspapers (for now), but I wasn't able to find any of these there yet
He is former service. Can you expand on this? It seems relevant, particularly since the commenter who started this thread is very fixated on the specific words he used.
“I thought you said your dog does not bite!”
“That is not my dog”