乘客們正在利用社群媒體「駭客」在被送回經濟艙之前搶到頭等艙飲料
您無法自行升級。如果您看到頭等艙有空位，您不能隨便坐。我從來沒有見過它真正起作用。我看到的是嘗試這樣做的乘客感到尷尬，而且我還看到乘客在被送到後面並被趕下飛機時將問題升級。但有些人現在正在嘗試，即使他們知道自己會被趕出去——他們只是想在那之前喝一杯免費飲料！
這是一段視頻，顯示一名美國聯合航空公司的乘客在多次試圖升級到商務艙並偷走香檳後被從上海飛往紐瓦克的航班上拖走。
這是大韓航空航班上的一名乘客在嘗試自助升等後被拖出商務艙。當機組人員試圖讓她移動時，她高喊「美國元帥！美國元帥！就好像她希望那個人做出回應一樣。然後他們試圖移動她，她笑說她是 繫好安全帶 所以她被鎖在座位上。最後被拖下紅道後，她高喊“核裁軍！”
就像我說的，這基本上行不通。但今天我了解到，有些人知道這一點，但仍然坐在頭等艙座位上。他們以為自己會被趕出去，但他們只會被轉移到後面的座位上——而且可能會在他們這樣做之前得到一杯免費飲料！
達美航空從羅德島州普羅維登斯飛往亞特蘭大的乘客在頭等艙的隔排座位上坐下來。他們朝後面走去。
他們很快站起來笑著說“我們是新人”，空服員問他們在第幾排，他們說 24。
一名空服員分享了這些乘客的情況，並不是第一次：
[T}he flight attendant comes over and I tell him I’ve never seen anything like that before. He tells me it just happened for the first time to him earlier and that the people sat down, received their pre-flight booze and then said I’m just going to go say hi to my sister in the back of the plane and walked off with the free drink to obviously not return.
As commenters observed, “this is a new “hack” making its way around social media.” In fact, “Flight Attendants HATE this one simple trick!”
It may seem silly to do, but someone facing $10 for a cocktail in coach makes a quick calculation that as long as they don’t put up too much of a fight, apologize and act confused (they were drinking, after all!), it’s a cost savings.
Joke’s on them with domestic carriers like American Airlines, where flight attendants don’t usually bother offering first class passengers predeparture beverages.
