I love how so many aspects of traveling resemble the caste system and other archaic forms of "ranking" people.  It's so wonderfully degrading. 

When boarding the plane, all the "Elite Access" members can board first, and they get the best seats in the house.  Not only do they get spacious leather seats, these "Elites" get to watch all the pitiful scum that walk by them and sit in coach.  How lucky we are to even be allowed to walk past these people, these "Elites". 

Even before boarding, special people with a "Corporate Card" get to sit around in a room filled with luxury, drinking free sodas and lounging on comfortable leather chairs.  And who could blame them?  Who wants to sit near all the dirty common folk in the normal waiting areas?  Unthinkable. 

After the flight, everyone hops on a bus to pick up a rental car.  What's the first stop?  The "Gold Club" lot, where there are no lines and only European cars.  The rest of the untouchables wait in long lines to get junky American cars.  Only convertibles in the winter.  Only black cars in the summer.