QANTAS LETS YOU PAY TO KEEP ADJOINING SEAT EMPTY

Australia’s Qantas airline now has something called a neighbor-free seating option, which allows customers to block off the seat next to them for a fee, on international flights to and from the U.S. Travelers flying to Australia from Dallas, Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco can pay as little as $143 to keep the seat next to them empty. The option is available only for customers flying economy – where tickets start at $1,000 – and on flights that aren’t full. The airline said it will email customers 48 hours before their flight departure with the option to book the adjoining seat.
* Hold on – the seat next to you isn’t booked, but they still want you to voluntarily pay $143 to keep it open for nobody. Absolute genius.
* Plus – they save more than that on the fuel the missing passenger isn’t using. DOUBLE genius.
* Do you also have to pay for the drinks they don’t buy?
* I’d pay the extra fee if they sat somebody next to me who didn’t talk.
* And how much is it to keep a screaming baby off the flight?