Only passenger on a flight
 

Chinese woman becomes 'world's luckiest passenger' - BBC News

All well and good, but I had the same thing without the Facebook nonsense in October 2013 from MAN to LHR. Great service on BA with lovely staff and loads to eat and drink. Pity it was so short....

Best thing about it was the ability of an empty A319 flying only 200 miles to start the take off run from half way down the runway and lifting off within what felt like a five second ground run. I recall looking out of the window at two heavily laden A330s trundling to the beginning of the runway and thinking "...I wonder if we can overtake those two..." We sure did.

I was the only pax once on a Manx J41 BRU/CWL and with a complimentary bar to go.

Once one of 30 (including 8 kids) on a Qantas 747 Trans-Tasman on a Saturday night

Moved everyone into business class, joined by the single first class passenger - loads of free booze and food - everyone wandering about chatting

Turn off all the lights down the back except emergency lighting and allow the kids to run about there...

Marvellous!!

Was one of less than 10 on a BA 767 LIN-LHR on the day after the beginning of GW1. Everyone else was hedging their bets by not travelling due to fears of reprisals by Saddam Hussein's agents. In general, in the 'olden days' there seemed to be more empty seats on most flights, so you could spread out once in the cruise.


SHJ

I had an EK flight several years ago on an A380 where there were only 10 people in rows 65-80.

Pretty much everyone took the middle 4 to lie flat for most of the overnight


That same route, same time of year, same time of day, a year later and I could see only 2 empty seats in the rear half of the downstairs.

It has happened to me on a number of occasions in 50 odd years. Best was many moons ago when I was the only pax on an Air Anglia PA-31 Navajo flight from BHX to NWI. As it was a single pilot operation I got to sit in row 0 and was even allowed a go at flying it. Great fun.

Happened to me in 2012. I was the only passenger on a flight from Scranton to Newark, for a connection to Heathrow. It was running late, and we arrived at the gate directly across the pier from the Heathrow flight, so I had a few yards to walk for my next flight. I've always wondered if that was deliberate or coincidence.

When I saw the thread title, I thought the report would be this: Alex Simon was the only passenger on board a Philippine Airlines flight | Daily Mail Online

When I searched for the one from a week ago, this showed from a year ago: Man finds himself alone on Delta flight - CNN.com

My guess is that, with the multiplicity of flights these days, statistically it will mean more examples and so it will become less remarkable.

I was one of three passengers on an Air Lingus 737 from Manchester to Copenhagen circa 1974.

The meal was fresh salmon, I had several helpings :ok:

It's happened a few times on Air Zimbabwe, on the B767 and B737.

Late 90s with Air Littoral, CDG to Saarbrucken they laid on an F100 just for me.
"Just ring if you want anything".

Return was some Embraer turboprop - for 3 pax.

Not surprisingly Air Littoral are now defunct :rolleyes:

My wife, daughter and I were the only people in Upper Class on a flight to Miami nine years ago. Should I let the DM know..?

Me and a family of four shared a SAS 737 from DUB to ARN about fifteen years ago. Nice flight!

mid 80's only pax LGW to ABZ with BA knew some of CC still did the safety demo, good choice of sarnies, and was able to change seats too :)

Flew a business passenger from either Gatwick or Heathrow (can't remember which) to Frankfurt. He was the only passenger onboard the 747, and declined the offer of first class.

Sole passenger
 

Years ago was the only passenger on a Fokker 100 Eindhoven to Schiphol. Due to
a monumental sc**wup My car was at Schiphol and my flight was to Rotterdam.
When I explained to the flight crew... Don't worry we'll put you on the manifest (?)
when we fly on to Eindhoven, then we go empty to Schiphol. So that's what we did.
Quite low level, and then landing gate & customs all to myself.
Different times !

Forgot to say, about a week or so later a Fokker 100 broke up in a thunderstorm
shortly after departing Rotterdam. Always wondered !

Yes my flight to LHR required the safety procedures. I asked if I could do them and was given 10/10 for accuracy!

DFW-LHR 19 passengers.
Dinner served minutes after wheels up then FAs disappeared until breakfast service, plenty of snacks and drinks though.

Solo Pax!
 

Once had a L1011 Tri-Star to myself all the way from Alaska to the UK. The circumstances were exceptional, but this was a non-IFE aircraft, so plenty of food and a four-seat kip did nicely, thank you!

It's always a boody long time ago...
 

....nowadays.

I was the sole pax on an Air Inter DC9 Orly to Nimes-Garons. The FA insisted on doing the pax brief while she sat next to me. She started "Capt Cauvin and his crew....." I said "Ask him if he was born in Madagascar" She looked at me very strangely but did ask, she was even more surprised when he came back saying fetch him up to the flight deck. When I got there it was immediately apparent that he was related to "Cauvin the Pirate" who flew for the local provincial political boss in Madagascar. He was astounded that I had flown with his father a few years before. The clue was in the fact that all the male members of that family were completely bald and had very regularly shaped heads (like Yul Brynner).
The whole family were all air mad and all qualified pilots.
The FO got all the flying on that leg while matey chatted and I was very well fed and watered (wined). It was a great start to a great month with the French Aeronavale.

The Ancient Mariner