Agreed. The pax, not having KCM or even precheck, having gotten to the airport two hours early, endured security and boarding and the twenty minute taxi (at a busy hub or forty minute taxi if you have to deice) to the runway, and similar long taxi to the gate on the other end, are scarcely going to notice the difference between a Mach 0.82 cruise or a Mach 0.88 cruise to a destination 3000 miles away (where they’ll wait 45 minutes in line for their rental car anyway).

Getting them on-board WiFi would be a lot more of a priority for most of them. They can binge-watch their Netflix then.

And we are paid by the hour anyway and the two seats up front are really pretty comfortable.