The Status Peacock

Field guide / The Status Peacock

PLATE 07

Listus insufferabilis

Habitat: The front of any line, whether or not a line exists.
Marks: Luggage tag worn at chest height, facing out.
Call: "I fly this route every week."

Holds elite status on an airline whose first lounges are not scheduled to open until late 2027. Until then it is a VIP at a very large bus station, and it would like you to know.

Stable

Sightings (7)

Pistachios. Honey roasted. Bow.

Filed under Status Peacock · Extra legroom, a row to itself

A-List. An extra-legroom row. A free premium drink. And pistachios. The Peacock would like you to know that life is worth living, and that it is seated slightly ahead of you.

First class. If you know, you know.

Filed under Status Peacock · The row with the good tray table

Southwest has no first class. The Peacock has decided otherwise, on the strength of one snack and a few inches.

First row perks

Filed under Status Peacock · Row 1, facing a wall

The perk is the wall. Also being first off the plane, to wait at the same baggage carousel as everyone else.

The snack has a card

Filed under Status Peacock · Extra legroom

There is a card. It announces the premium snack. Lesser rows receive their pretzels without ceremony.

Extra legroom hits different

Filed under Status Peacock · Somewhere near the front

It hits a few inches different. The Peacock felt every one of them.

Boarding group C. Mood: A1.

Filed under Status Peacock · Gate area

Group C, holding a trading card of the airplane, happier than anyone in group A. We log the happy ones too. There are not many.

Your boarding pass is now a resume

Filed under Status Peacock · Mobile boarding pass

A-List. Cardmember. One drink coupon. The airline now prints your credentials on the pass in little badges. The Peacock has requested a larger font and a lanyard.