In which I opine on politeness
The long leg of my flight from Burlington to Lima (almost 8 hours from JFK to LIM) was decidedly red-eye, leaving just before midnight. I had elected to pay a modest upgrade charge for a little more elbow and leg room to make the night just a little less awful. This was one of those co-branded flights: it was nominally Delta, but it was really a Latam flight. Somehow, though I had a boarding pass that showed the upgrade (in row 12) that I had printed out last August when I made the reservation, Delta then reported last week that I was in row 35.…