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Man Gets Entire Plane To Himself After Fellow Travelers Catch Other Flights
Consumerist ^ | June 23, 2016

Posted on 06/24/2016 3:07:50 AM PDT by SMGFan

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1 posted on 06/24/2016 3:07:50 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

So has memory faded so fast that the association of the phrase “fellow travelers” with Marxism is no more?


2 posted on 06/24/2016 3:13:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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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..........


3 posted on 06/24/2016 3:15:32 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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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.

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.

4 posted on 06/24/2016 3:17:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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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.


5 posted on 06/24/2016 3:23:18 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: SMGFan

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?


6 posted on 06/24/2016 3:24:29 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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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...


7 posted on 06/24/2016 3:24:52 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: T-Bird45

If I was flying all alone in a Delta airliner, I’d have tried to start an orgy with the hot stewardesses.


8 posted on 06/24/2016 3:26:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: KSCITYBOY

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


9 posted on 06/24/2016 3:32:01 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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If the plane and crew have to be somewhere, for another flight, the planes got to fly.

Seldom are planes used for single purpose use.

10 posted on 06/24/2016 3:42:45 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: SMGFan

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.


11 posted on 06/24/2016 3:42:57 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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I’d still have tried to start an orgy.


12 posted on 06/24/2016 3:43:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: SMGFan

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.


13 posted on 06/24/2016 3:44:27 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: exDemMom

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.


14 posted on 06/24/2016 3:44:45 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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...and there was STILL a scramble for overhead bin space!


15 posted on 06/24/2016 3:45:36 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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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.


16 posted on 06/24/2016 3:53:23 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: Lazamataz
You have obviously not flown Delta in about 30 years.

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

17 posted on 06/24/2016 3:55:47 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraereh)
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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.

They wouldn't have been able to ignore ME.

Not with my pants off, humping the hottest chick's thigh.

Bow chicka waa waa

18 posted on 06/24/2016 3:55:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: rdcbn

You forget that I consider Helen Thomas hot.


19 posted on 06/24/2016 3:56:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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Let me say that the flight attendant had major seniority.


20 posted on 06/24/2016 3:58:44 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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