How to Go in Comfort on a Flight

This trick requires some subterfuge. This could be seen as really tricky or manipulative but what makes it only borderline unethical is the fact that you are not taking anything away from anyone else nor causing an inconvenience to others (such as a situation where you are taking a handicapped parking space when you're not handicapped).

Airports are tedious, long, drawn-out nightmares, so why not make yourself comfortable at the expense of the TSA? The way to do it is simple--inform the airline that you are incapicitated and require a wheelchair (they will not ask for proof or even the cause, and if they do, you don't need to tell them). You will then be comfortably seated in a wheelchair and wheeled by a TSA rep through the security checkpoint (after your TSA handler jumps the line). You may have to stand briefly for a security scan but that's about it. Then sit back and allow yourself to be wheeled to your gate (or make the TSA handler take you to a store to get coffee or food on the way). You will be kept right by the entrance of the departure gate and will board first since you are one of those passengers "requiring extra assistance." Your hand luggage will be carried for you and loaded into the overhead compartment for you.

The only downside is that once you land, you may have to wait until everyone else disembarks. For your trouble, you get someone else to get down your luggage and then wheel you out. Not a bad trade-off, and it didn't cost you a penny extra.