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.
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...
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 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.
...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.
-PJ
This happened to me on a 747. I was the only passenger.
The good ole days. I fley from Austin to Minneapolis. I wasted a first class upgrade. There was me and 2 others in coach. The others got a free upgrade. There was a crew of 6 with 3 passengers. I think it was a 757.
Northwest used to have a DC-10 flight at 7:30 pm from Newark to Detroit. They were mainly moving the plane back to Detroit for the next day.
I think I was one of 6 passengers flying the barn sized plane. Pretty cool.
About 4-5 coworkers and I ended up on a plane by ourselves about 30 years ago. I think there was one other couple that was on that flight.
It had been canceled, and we were going to take a very early flight out the next morning.
The few that remained were all sleeping in the waiting area, and were woken up by a boarding agent that said they were going to now have the flight.
I used to fly Kennedy to Rio or São Paulo a lot years ago
Varig or Pan Am mostly
At times the L1011 or DC10 would be one quarter or so and you could have a whole long row
Once I met a ballet dancer from a Tanglewood troupe on her way down for her company to tour Brasil and perform
We shared a row of seats....making out in the dark....it’s enivutable ...she’s 22 and I was 27....drinks and dinner and movie...it’s like blind date for a half a day...lol....a good blind date
I squired her around São Paulo before her shows and then she took off on her tour and we exchanged numbers etc
All from an empty 10-11 hour flight
The dancer was a sweet Connecticut girl.....I’m sure she made someone happy.....man....she was very ethereal beauty
I was the only one on a 737 flight from LA to Fresno in 1987. It was really weird.
I was one of three passengers booked on an American flight from Dallas to Sioux Falls. The flight got mysteriously “cancelled” supposedly due to weather. However, when I later checked with the airport in Sioux Falls not a single flight was cancelled that day by any other airline due to weather. Weather conditions had actually improved at the time my flight was to land. It was painfully obvious the flight had been cancelled due to the small number of passengers, but by trotting out the bad weather excuse the airline didn’t have to pay for our overnight accommodations. This guy was lucky we wasn’t sleeping in the terminal for the night.