WEAR UGLY XMAS SWEATER TODAY, BOARD AIRLINES EARLY

Today is the third Friday in December, which makes it National Ugly Holiday Sweater Day. And if you wear an ugly sweater today while taking a flight aboard Alaskan Airlines, Virgin America, or Horizon Air, you’ll qualify for early boarding. Holiday travel is notoriously frustrating, so anything that lightens the mood is appreciated. Natalie Bowman, managing director of marketing and advertising at Alaska Airlines, said in a statement: “This fun promotion not only allows guests to board early … but gives people another opportunity to dust off that ugly holiday sweater hanging in the back of their closet.” As if that weren’t enough to get you into the holiday spirit, the airlines are also playing holiday music during boarding throughout December – which is either delightful or annoying, depending where you stand on the issue.
* And depending on whether you have noise-cancelling headphones.
* Warning: If you wear an ugly holiday sweater with yoga pants, you board last.
* Please don’t board the plane with your ugly sweater until the pilots are safely inside the cockpit with the door locked.
* There you are in your ugly sweater, and you know they never turn the a/c on while your departure time is delayed for an hour.