Flying Coach as ‘Punishment’?
Travel Blog • Rob Verger • 01.29.09 | 10:31 AM ET
Tennis phenomenon Serena Williams has promised she’ll fly back from Australia to Florida in economy class if she loses the Australian Open, the AFP reports. It’s a punishment to herself, she says, and a way to conserve money. The article quotes her as saying, “I wouldn’t allow myself to have the emergency row either. I would be so mad, I would have to sit like the last row, the tightest row. That way I wouldn’t do it again.”
Do you think she could also arrange to be put next to a crying baby?
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Michael Yessis 01.29.09 | 11:43 AM ET
Now that’s some motivation to win. If I were in Vegas I’d put some money on Serena in the final.
Jenna Schnuer 01.29.09 | 12:13 PM ET
A crying baby and a three-year-old kick kick kicking the back of her seat.
Or maybe if she plays really really poorly, she can recreate the sitting-in-the-airplane-bathroom flight that made the news a while back:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24585615/
Sophia Dembling 01.29.09 | 12:30 PM ET
Hm, I must be the most self-punishing person on Earth. I think I’ve flown first class once. My last flight, I was in economy, middle seat, in front of the emergency exit row (no seat reclining—not that I usually tilt fully, in sympathy for the person behind me). What did I do to deserve that?