Over the years, the Dallas-based Southwest airline has received thousands of letters and scores of wedding invitations from couples who met on one of the airline's flights. Thanks to an open seating policy where customers are free to choose their seats, many a romance has taken off with the purchase of an inexpensive ticket in the Southwest Airlines. That policy led to wedding bells for Beth and Derrick Zefo of Tennessee. Beth saw Derrick as they were boarding a flight to Chicago, and thought he “was kind of cute.”

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近年来，总部设在达拉斯的西南航空公司收到了寄自相识在该公司航班的夫妇们数千封信件和好几十封婚礼请柬。多亏宽松的座位规定，乘客可以自由选择座位，只要购买一张西南航空公司价钱不贵的机票，浪漫之旅就可能随之开始。这一规定促成了来自田纳西州的贝丝和德里克·泽夫的婚礼。他们俩在登上飞往芝加哥的航班时，贝丝遇见了德里克，觉得他“挺可爱”。