Who would have thought you would fall so low while flying so high?
Southwest Airlines make a humorous video who shares the most “discouraged but cunning” way passengers kept the seats open next to one another throughout the flight. Southwest has no seat assignments.
By showing a passenger seated by the window – spreading his legs in an empty row – he first demonstrates a “hat-trick”.
No, this man didn’t rating three goals in a hockey game
As a substitute, he cleverly put his hat on his arm and held it over an empty seat in his row at a clever angle in order that passers-by, distracted by the boarding chaos, would just keep walking, pondering the seat was already taken.
The second method induces a certain reverse psychology.
Southwest advises that some passengers placed on an overtly completely happy face and uneasily greet someone who has been sitting next to them for a very long time in the air.
This sinister tactic has been dubbed “seat patting.”
Approach #3 is relatively in preparation – “downhill”.
“Can I sit here?” the passenger asks, to which the man replies categorically, “Oh no.”
The fourth, and maybe most nefarious, is the “fake breakup.”
A person calls his companion on a fake phone and starts hysterical that he has been broken up and can be an inconsolable mess for the next “two hours and 43 minutes”.
While the aircraft supplier’s hard advice ended there, many commentators on TikTok also provided useful strategies of their very own.
“You forgot the ‘eat a giant bag of Funions’ trick,” Chelsea Cangelosi wrote, to which Southwest replied: “It’s just plain evil.”
“You forgot the dead body ‘let me unpack all my hand luggage in these seats,'” added McKenna Morin.
“I used to be on a plane last week and the lady in the row across from me pretended to vomit right into a vomit bag during the entire boarding process,” user Sara Ann stated.
While Southwest makes jokes about it, there have been various cases recently where passengers behaved well above cruising altitude while flying.
Earlier this month – on a Southwest flight – a person threw one other passenger in the head after allegedly bumping into his wife in an aggressive manner on a flight from Dallas to Phoenix.
A recent, vicious seat dispute resulted in the electrocution of a person aboard a Jetstar flight from Perth to Melbourne, Australia.
Last November, an unruly passenger – whose nature of the disruption stays undisclosed – also grounded a Southwest flight.
When reaching out for comment on the latest viral video, a Southwest representative told The Post:
“This TikTok video is supposed to bring humor and the over-the-top strategies shown are only meant to make you laugh. Our flight attendants are experts in the hospitality industry, especially during the boarding process, and certainly one of their favorite pieces of recommendation is to check in 24 hours prematurely to get your seat as early as possible.”