They worked great for someone like yourself who can book his own flight, but the biggest portion of “front of the plane” fliers are corporate employees (and free upgrades), and they are booked through the company travel arrangers who typically, if the company is large, have a contract with a global travel agency who, in turn, has some “working arrangements” with some major carriers. For corporate fliers, the range of choices is fairly limited except for those in the very highest positions in the firm.

Silverjet was outside this inertial booking loop and had to fund its first several years primarily on “independents.” There weren’t enough of you (evidently).

Culturally, it makes total sense you would be on Silverjet — it’s the “high quality non-MSM airline” business model, if you know what I mean. The MSM airlines will try to copy it, as they have blogs, but they won’t really get it. But they will endure because they, at least now, have the capital to keep poor operations afloat. It will be interesting to see how travel evolves in these areas.