How do you know they paid? When I was a frequent flier I'd always get upgraded on short flights because... No one paid for first class on those flights but the airline could consume an upgrade.
If you have a long layover, flying business or first on any leg gives you (or used to) access to the premium lounge, so sometimes you can recover what you pay for the upgrade, but most of the time they give them to the gold or whatever members who are flying
Imho it's less about calling out the airplane than preemptively shitting on her neighbour. It's the whole "I'm with the plebes so my neighbour will be a pita" that makes her sounds so disdainful.
Also, I call it cattle class when I fly because that's how it makes me feel.
There was a post where a kid was shooting a penalty against a professional goal keeper and the goalkeeper was blocking every shot. He was also posturing against the kid.
People were commenting on how great that was to make strong men.
That's the kind of weird shit I've sorta come to expect from LL but people referring to economy as peasant class is kind of wild even for this kinda community haha
Wouldn't say a word but with a little cheese and time, she'll wish I was speaking with my mouth. Hopefully the collateral damage will understand that they suffer for a noble cause.