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“Dad, I’m going to be in first class!”

The young lad in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport looked up at his father, eyes alight. He couldn’t have been more than 7 or 8, but kids are precocious these days: He was watching the upgrade request reader board above our departure gate, and his name had flashed in one of the columns. It was Christmas week, so maybe Santa would be kind.