A nifty trick can help you choose you bag a better seat on a plane without paying extra.
Flights can be expensive before considering the cost of added luggage or seat bookings, and even then, paying extra doesn't guarantee travellers the best spots on the plane.
If you really need to be sat with a specific person on a plane or have your eyes on a particular seat, going through the conventional reservation route is the safest way to go.
The fee for doing this can cost anything from £2 to upwards of £20, depending on the airline you're flying with.
If you're willing to take a bit of a risk and don't fancy the cost, then there's an easy booking hack that can help you you secure a seat with more room.
Conversely, it can go wrong and land you stuck away from your travelling partner.
In a video posted on their TikTok profile, seasoned travellers Oskar and Dan @oskaranddan offered an insight into the handy booking tip.
They said: "Of course, you want to fly next to your travel companion but it's not very comfortable if you also have some stranger sitting next to you for hours. That's why you should always book yourselves in the window and aisle seats".
The rule can work for rules of three, when the middle one is left empty, open for other travellers to book it.
According to savvy travellers, leaving this seat empty means that passengers can enjoy extra space without any added fees.
They explained: "If your flight isn't full there's a high chance the seat won't be taken and you can enjoy the whole row to yourselves."
Even if the seat is booked by a stranger, it's more than likely that they would be happy to swap with the person on the aisle or window seat, so there's still a chance you'll be able to sit together.
Seat politics on planes can get feisty quickly.
One woman on Reddit recently explained how she became furious when a man sat beside her on a flight which wasn't 'even half full'.
Taking it upon herself to make an excuse on why she wanted the seat vacant, the anonymous Reddit user claims flight attendants threatened her for her white lie.
Taking to the popular forum, the woman questioned: "Am I the a**hole for not wanting someone to sit next to me on a plane?"
She explained: "I (25F) had a flight. As we board, the gate agent says the flight is not even half full and they need us to spread out for even weight distribution.
"I was sitting in the middle seat and they kept repeating the flight was only half full, only 75 people on the flight.
"Almost literally the last second a man (50ish) walks on and states 'I'll sit next to you' not even asking so that gave me a red flag about him and I say 'actually my husband is going to sit here'.
"The truth is I am traveling alone but as a young woman I avoid telling people that."
Despite having several empty seats throughout the plane and claiming her husband was sitting beside her, the man still insisted that he was keen to sit beside the woman.
Ultimately she moved to an aisle seat to "avoid a problem" but the man then repeatedly asked her where her husband was, and accused her of being a liar.
She said she told him to "shut the truck up", and as the argument became heated, cabin crew got involved.
She claimed a flight attendant then said that one of them would need to move or both would be kicked off the flight, so she ultimately conceded.
She added: "I look at her dumbfounded because I was there first and I didn't cause the problem he did. So she says one of you needs to move or you're both off the flight. So I just grab my bag and move."
