wrote:

Free eats for fly-ins vary from airport
to airport and has become very rare as costs have gone up. In the last
three years, I can't recall a fly-in breakfast to which I flew where I
didn't have to pay for breakfast.

Awww...I've often found breakfast free for the pilot, at least.
Problem comes when I'm getting near the end of the line and politely ask
the cooks, "So, the pilot eats free if I flew in here?" and they nod and
look past me for the guy who flew me in.

*sigh*