Posted on 05/31/2005 4:16:00 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has criticized the cash-strapped national airline for flying unviable routes, including one trip which saw an Air Zimbabwe jet fly 6,000 km (3,728 miles) from Dubai with a solitary passenger aboard.
Local media reported earlier this month that Air Zimbabwe's maiden flight to Dubai, a Boeing 737, left with 49 passengers on board and made the return flight with just one.
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I had a similar experience on a nearly-empty red-eye from SFO to O'Hare about twenty years ago. I was on my way to Camp Lejeune for training. I got down on the floor under the seats, stretched out, and slept the whole way there. The flight crew left me alone, although one isn't supposed to sleep on the floor.
I thoroughly appreciated the common-sense courtesy from the flight crew.
The 9/11 planes were all carrying a fraction of the passengers they were capable of carrying. I just don't believe the terrorists could have taken the planes if they had been full of passengers.
Actually, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia aren't very similar either.
All I want to know is what the heck was that one idiot who went BACK thinking? (Make that two idiots, since obviously the pilot went back too.)
" The first day of the new service there was only one man on the flight.
They lost his baggage."
You've got to realize that that HAD to be had to do. The airline should be given credit for going the extra mile to actually lose his luggage.
At least he got pretzels.
Back in 1980, on a late-night Philippine Airways flight back to Los Angeles, I took an entire row in the mid-section, folded up the armrests, and stretched out for a nice long sleep. Others saw me do it, and followed my example. There were at least 8 of us that did that.
yeah but they are relatively simliar when Dubai is added to the mix :-)
Let's see, 48 leaving and one on the return flight. About right.
I remember, as a kid, flying the West Yellowstone, MT. - Salt Lake City route during the non-summer months on Western Airlines. Near the end of the route (and the airline), there would be usually my dad & I and 1 or 2 other passengers. You knew the end was near.
I was travelling home on leave from the military. The stewardesses gave me a first class seat and all the priviledges of first class. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
Poor bastard still only got one bag of peanuts.
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