Regardless, he is making a show of it.
Passengers did a double take on Southwest Flight 896 from Sacramento to Burbank on Thursday when they saw California Gov. Jerry Brown sitting among them - sans entourage - on his first trip to Los Angeles since being sworn in last month. The Democratic governor was in budget-cutting mode, sitting in an economy seat after he opted not to pay the $16 extra for Southwest's "business select" seating.
That's not all: Sources say Brown also relishes taking the airline's senior discount. Brown traveled without the accoutrements that Californians have come to expect from the executive who runs the world's eighth-largest economy: He had no press aides, no security and even lacked the company of his chief adviser, wife Anne Gust Brown. - SF Gate