It was not my first flight but definitely the first as a single passenger in an offshore Cab.
I was scheduled for a one full day survey on a Rig Drilling on the Dutch German divide line. I came out White Thursday but the flight was delayed so I arrived after 18:00 hours.
It showed that there would not be a scheduled flight before Tuesday leaving me on board over Easter or I had to hop on a unscheduled Heli that would bring some urgent spare parts Friday morning at 07:00. But that Heli would only bring me to the next Rig.
Of course I went for that option.
I spent the whole night on the survey.
Grabbed a quick breakfast and was just in time for the chopper. It turned out it brought me to a Rig in the northern Dutch part and I was the only passenger! I was kicked out as capacity was planned for specialists and company men returning to shore before Easter.
However there was a second flight which would take me to the Main platform of the oil Company which was more to the UK-Dutch divide!
From there there were multiple flights every day of which I just got the last one inbound.
I had flewn more than triple the shortest route but did not get the airmiles. At least I was home before Easter!