Posted on 06/24/2016 3:07:50 AM PDT by SMGFan
It’s not every day that the average traveler has an entire row of seats to take over, much less an entire plane. But one Delta passenger flying home this week got to experience the sweet sensation of being the only person on his flight when his fellow travelers opted to take other flights.
Everything worked out perfectly for the Atlanta man, despite his initial worries when he showed up to an empty gate area at the airport in New Orleans earlier this week.
“I was so nervous,” he told WSB-TV. “I couldn’t believe it. I felt like I missed my flight!”
A Delta staffer asked him if he’d like to travel home the next day instead, because he was the only passenger on the flight. As it turns out, other passengers had rescheduled after the original flight had been delayed a few times.
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So has memory faded so fast that the association of the phrase “fellow travelers” with Marxism is no more?
After getting stuck in LA all day I was one of 3 passengers on a Delta flight from Dallas to KC once. The fact that it landed in KC around 2 am..........
Delta messed up. I'd have offered him comped tickets and a new free pair of tickets anywhere they fly. They'd have saved money.
Delta probably had to re-position the plane and crew for the next day’s operations so there was no real cost to them except the cabin crew had to keep him in soda and peanuts rather than just flying.
Back in ‘94 I went to Lockport NY for work and the plane I was to return from Buffalo on was unavailable, and so I ended up on a GM corporate jet. It was just a 45-minute hop back to Detroit Metro but what a ride! I believe it was a Cessna Citation III. The cockpit was only 6 feet from my seat and my view of the instrument panel was mostly unobstructed. The funny thing about it was that hardly anybody wanted to hear my story...You know, the “who cares?” attitude you can sense when it’s something really cool that happens and you just have to let somebody know?
I’ve been in a similar situation twice.
The first time happened right after I joined the Navy and was going to Orlando for boot camp. The plane was a DC-10, and there were three other passengers: all girls recruited by the same recruiter, heading out to boot camp. When we arrived at recruit training command, we were separated into two different companies, and I never saw the two who ended up in the other company again.
The second time happened when my husband and I were returning from Spain after spending three years stationed at Rota. For a number of reasons, we were delayed in arriving at the airport in Madrid and missed our flight. Anyway, long story short, we ended up on a flight on a DC-10 with three other people. The service was amazing. What I thought was interesting was that the crew offered to move us to first class, and we declined the offer. So did the other passengers. None of us had paid for first class...
If I was flying all alone in a Delta airliner, I’d have tried to start an orgy with the hot stewardesses.
Had a similar flight from Cal. red eye to NYC. They moved the three of us to first class, wined and dined us, followed by good conversation. Felt like it was our private plane. Breakfast with a Bloody Mary watching the sun rise. On deplaning, stews gave each of us two bottles of wine in appreciation of our civilized undemanding behavior.
Best long flight ever. Look at me ma! King of the world feeling. LOL
Seldom are planes used for single purpose use.
I recall the time when Delta had one plane capable of international flight. It took me and my travel companion three days to get to Germany because that plane broke down on the ATL boarding gate. Pan Am got us there.
I’d still have tried to start an orgy.
I was once one of two that made a flight from Atlanta to Huntsville.
I moved up to first class on my own but the crew did not acknowledge it other than with a dirty look. Short flight only 30 minutes. Think that was my last ever flight on Republic.
The offer to move you to first class was based on two reasons, good PR and to make their flight easier. Less trudging back and forth with every one contained comfortably up front.
Should have treated it as a gracious gift, as all costs to carrier were fixed regardless of where you sat. The surprise benefits would have been mutual.
...and there was STILL a scramble for overhead bin space!
I was a lone passenger on a very early morning Continental flight from Chicago to Cleveland. All I got was a cup of coffee and was then basically ignored by flight attendants.
BTW, this happened to me once on a Southwest flight at the kick off of the invasion of Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.
Only passenger on an empty flight . Everyone else cancelled due to terrorism concerns
And yes, the Stews were very attractive on that flight
They wouldn't have been able to ignore ME.
Not with my pants off, humping the hottest chick's thigh.
Bow chicka waa waa
You forget that I consider Helen Thomas hot.
Let me say that the flight attendant had major seniority.
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