Posted on Sep 14, 2019
Do you believe it is ethical or unethical to take advantage of an airline's offer to for military personnel to preboard?
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What prompts this question about ethics in this situation?
Airlines are a business and frequently extend perks to customers who overpay and have the right to offer perks to any customer of their choosing. Based off this question, you really should be asking if it's ethical to take any kind of military discount anywhere.
Typically, I do not elect to take advantage of the preboarding offer, unless I'm traveling alone and I know the plane will be packed. I don't see it in terms of ethical vs unethical, that choice was made up by the airline.
Airlines are a business and frequently extend perks to customers who overpay and have the right to offer perks to any customer of their choosing. Based off this question, you really should be asking if it's ethical to take any kind of military discount anywhere.
Typically, I do not elect to take advantage of the preboarding offer, unless I'm traveling alone and I know the plane will be packed. I don't see it in terms of ethical vs unethical, that choice was made up by the airline.
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A school I went to argued that if a person is to take advantage of the pre-board offer they are acting unethically.
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SFC Marc W.
I suppose based on how someone defines ethics just about any military perk could be considered unethical. After adding in more factors such as a businesses right to offer discounts or specials, I just don't see much of an argument. It feels more like a purely academic point is trying to be made, or someone who is mad they don't get to preboard (to which I'd invite them to become a gold star member of X airline).
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SPC Kevin Ford
COL(P) (Join to see) - I can see where that could be construed that way. People do pay to board earlier so there could be argued to be a monetary value attached to pre-boarding. But as other people have pointed out, that would then apply to just about any discount an organization offers to active duty you can think of.
In my mind there is a difference between something freely given in appreciation with no expectation of payback vs. something like a vendor giving an officer a gift who may have some sort of control over vendor selection.
In my mind there is a difference between something freely given in appreciation with no expectation of payback vs. something like a vendor giving an officer a gift who may have some sort of control over vendor selection.
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I don't see any ethics issues as the boarding order is arbitrary. You benefit from boarding earlier, the airline benefits from being seen as friendly to active duty personnel.
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