Virgin’s announcement puts defence personnel on an impossibly tall pedestal while ignoring those who provide service to the community more continually
Virgin Australia’s latest announcement that it will offer priority boarding and on-board acknowledgment of veterans who fly with them has all the subtlety of an undergraduate marketing essay.
It is zero cost and from what we know will mean that a veteran (an undefined concept) will be able to leap ahead of the elderly, parents with babies or people with disabilities to take their full fare seat and then be publicly acknowledged by the aircraft captain, while the paramedic who has spent the last month attending to attempted suicides and drug overdoses, and saved the lives of three people suffering heart attacks sits anonymously at the back, having had to wait for the very special veteran to board first.
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