Man Gets Entire Plane To Himself After Fellow Travelers Catch Other Flights

Consumerist ^ | June 23, 2016

[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.

[AFreeBird]

The plane probably had to go back to Atlanta anyway.

[cyclotic]

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.

[wrench]

Well, there was Hooters Airline, for a very brief period of time.

They never arrived anywhere on time, and NEVER got a complaint!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Not if they needed the aircraft at the destination. Airlines will ferry empty planes to locations where they are needed.

[Covenantor]

All’s well that ends well when presented with pleasant surprises.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You DECLINED a free move to first class? Must be the first and only time in the history of commercial aviation!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Helen Thomas hot??!!. Even now??

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The 757 is so new, it wasn’t even around in the “good ole days”!

Now if it had been a 707, you’d have a claim.

[MayflowerMadam]

:) Oh, yeah. Forgot about Hooters.

[Bratch]

Laz in action:

[RitaOK]

Great story. Lol!

[mountn man]

I’d still have tried to start an orgy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5TIT5s3k0Q

[Verbosus]

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.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Have ya SEEN a “hot stewardess” in the last 30 years?

All the time - on non-union Asian airlines. :)

[morphing libertarian]

sometimes I think they just need to get the plane to another airport

[wardaddy]

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

[HerrBlucher]

I was the only one on a 737 flight from LA to Fresno in 1987. It was really weird.

[MarkL]

I had a similar problem on a flight from KC to OKC... I had to work, and after a long day at work, I needed to head right over to the airport, the flight was scheduled to leave at 6:30.

Due to weather on the east coast, we were told that the earliest the plane would be available was 9:30. I was a mess, so I thought it would be a good idea to drive home, shower, change, and come back to the airport in time to board the plane. A 45 minute drive each way.

When I got back to the airport, I learned that the flight had been delayed yet again, and the plane finally boarded just before midnight. I could have driven straight to OKC from my home in about 5 hours.

When I got to OKC, my bag didn’t make the flight, but there was nothing I could do because everything was closed. There was nobody there to report the missing bag, other than the baggage handlers. I was told I’d have to come back the next morning to report it.

The car rental desk was also closed, so I had to take a cab to the hotel for the night, then take a cab back to report the lost bag & rent a car.

From then on, I just drove to OKC.

Mark

[bk1000]

“hot stewardesses.”

Haven’t flown in a while, have you?

[The Great RJ]

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.