My Last Flight With My Wife Was Right Out of a Seinfeld Episode
Truth really is stranger than fiction
There is a classic episode of the sitcom Seinfeld where Jerry and Elaine go to the airport and find out there are only two seats left on the plane. One is in coach and one is in first class. After a brief discussion, Jerry makes the case that he flies first class all the time and that Elaine won’t even know what she’s missing.
Elaine acquiesces and agrees to take the coach seat, and as you can guess Jerry has a great flight and meets a model, and Elaine’s experience is the exact opposite. She has nothing but problems in her middle seat in coach.
On a recent flight from West Palm Beach to Chicago, my wife and I had a similar experience. When I checked in on my phone, I was offered an upgrade to first class for $90. I asked my wife to check into her flight to see if she could also upgrade. It turns out there was only one seat left in first class, so we had to decide who would take the first class seat.
My wife and I are in our 50s and at her last corporate job she had flown first class many times. I had only flown first class when it was offered as an upgrade, which only amounted to a couple of times. So my wife was kind enough to let me take the seat in first class and she would sit in coach.
