Southwest Airlines partners with Guitar Center to surprise passengers with ukulele lesson

When you are travelling on an airplane, you don’t usually expect that the airline company to give you presents. But in a surprising incident, Southwest Airlines partnered with the company Guitar Center to gift ukuleles to its passengers, and the people onboard were even given a 20-minute lesson on how to play the instrument.

The flight was going from California to Hawaii. The instrument is widely used in Hawaiian music, and the airline company conducted the class to promote Hawaiian culture as it is expanding its network in Hawaii. The Southwest Airlines tweeted a photo of ukuleles kept on the seats with the caption, “Guitar Center: You can learn how to play the ukulele in 20 minutes. Us: prove it.”

See this tweet here:

Guitar Center: You can learn how to play the ukulele in 20 minutes.

Us: prove it. pic.twitter.com/9YTtz9Q71G

— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) September 20, 2022

In a follow up tweet, the airline company posted a photo in which the passengers can be seen enthusiastically holding ukuleles in their hands. In the caption, the airline stated that by the time passengers reached Hawaii, they had all become professionals in playing the instrument.

We teamed up with @guitarcenter to surprise a flight full of Customers flying out of Long Beach with a ukulele and a lesson. By the time they arrived in Honolulu they were pros. pic.twitter.com/XsEx10sRJK

— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) September 20, 2022

In another tweet, the airline said that the passengers put away their ukuleles as they had already mastered how to play.

Don’t worry, y’all, everyone put their ukuleles away after 20 minutes since they had already mastered how to play.