First-class guy wants soldiers to get the best seats
Ronnie Polaneczky

WHEN HE WENT on his frequent business trips, Mike Bosaczyk used to care deeply about whether he flew in a first-class seat.

"There's nothing like it," he said. "You're first on, first off. There's always room in the overhead storage, so you don't have to check your bag. It makes the trip easier."

But after a chance encounter with a U.S. soldier returning home from Iraq, Bosaczyk doesn't give a crap about that stuff anymore.

And he doesn't want you to give a crap about it, either.

The Fairmount resident has started a campaign to get first-class flyers to trade their seats for the coach ones held by troops on the same flight.

Nothing, he said, makes him feel more warm and fuzzy about flying than squeezing into coach so that a serviceman can luxuriate in what would've been Bosaczyk's capacious berth at the front of the plane.

"It's the best feeling," says Bosaczyk, 45, whose job selling healthcare-information systems for McKesson Technologies will require him to fly hundreds of thousands of miles this year.

"It makes the whole plane happy. I even got applauded."

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