Saving Seats: Southwest Airlines Passenger’s Wife “Jumped Out And Left Him”
Southwest doesn’t have assigned seats. It’s first-come, first served. You get a boarding number and then line up in order. But Southwest has no rule against saving seats.
And that leads to a crazy amount of game theory and shenanigans that passengers go through to try to get an empty middle seat next to them. Whether it’s crumpling up tissues, spreading out, claiming your seatmate “is in the bathroom” or placing donuts on the seats, passengers try to get people to pick other seats – hoping that the last remaining one is beside them.
One passenger decided to tell a lie to keep the empty…
