Also selling: * faster de-planing (this, and an assumption that people paying more USUALLY cause less trouble, thus better to seat near the pilots) * the illu

Also selling: * faster de-planing (this, and an assumption that people paying more USUALLY cause less trouble, thus better to seat near the pilots) * the illusion of exclusivity (more important people 'go first') * the actual practice of exclusivity (service is provided highest paying class to least) when things run short / out * First Class, the one time I ever flew it, got meal choices that seemed actually good. Behind them it's always dry pretzel things for a snack flight or some mish mash of global fusion I'd never roll the dice on; or an overpriced stale sandwich from one of the stores in the area past TSA.