It’s not a status thing - people who want status fly business class :) But if you travel more than a few times a year having a 10 minute vs buffering for a mul

It’s not a status thing - people who want status fly business class :) But if you travel more than a few times a year having a 10 minute vs buffering for a multi-hour[1] line starts having significant value. You also don’t get nudie scanned or take your shoes off for no reason :) [1] I once missed a flight because of a 2 hour TSA line which had only two of the ten available conveyors running and only one person checking passports. When a tsa agent saw me getting frustrated she literally said “this is your fault for not being here on time”.