"Welcome aboard sir , your the only one travelling with us tonight"

[Alanslegal]

Nice one to the OP's friend!!

A few years back I was the only pax on a SQ F flight, and this year my GF and I were the only paxs on a LH F flight. They were both very cool, but the whole plane to one self easily tops my experiences.

 

[Greggsy]

Maybe it was on the proviso that catering was not assured :mrgreen:

Yes, it was after the meal service. My mate didn't mind, it was his first time up the pointy end and felt like royalty.

 

[elbarr]

A few years ago I was the only PAX on a Newcastle to Brisbane flight on a 30 seater. All was going well until I made reference to "Hosties". I was very quickly reminded the correct term is "flight attendant" and never sore her again as she then went and spent the next hour talking to the pilots. The airline only lasted another month on the route.

 

[TheInsider]

QF494 was`risking being cancelled due to the late inbound a/c, and therefore pushing curfew in SYD. AFAIK it departed at around 2122, and all the other passengers seemed to be moved to the QF492 which was meant to dept at 2030 but i think went at about 2055ish..

As for a prior cancellation would've been done last minute as crew are SYD based and i'm sure would prefer their own bed than a hotel bed from across the road. Also the a/c would've been positioning for the next morning too.

 

[rechoboam]

A few years ago I was the only PAX on a Newcastle to Brisbane flight on a 30 seater. All was going well until I made reference to "Hosties". I was very quickly reminded the correct term is "flight attendant" and never sore her again as she then went and spent the next hour talking to the pilots. The airline only lasted another month on the route.

At least you didn't call her the "hostie with the mostie".
This happened to me MEL - SYD (almost)
And one of the two other passengers on the whole flight - was my boss! We were going to the same meeting but didn't know we were on the same flight.
Oddly enough the third passenger sat directly behind me.

 

[jdlover23]

Recently had a colleague have QF F 747 to herself MEL-LAX, the two flight attendants told her they were calling it "her name's" cabin for the duration of the flight!

 

[LiamR]

I think my best attempt is 17 on a SYD-OOL flight in May.

It's not all that uncommon to get sub 50 on OOL flights midweek during off peak times.

 

[superchris]

Back in 1991, I had the whole of F on an Ansett flight SYD-MEL mid evening. It was on a free ticket and it felt strange having everyone else poring past me.

 

[Australian]

So this is how WP1 works!

 

[codash1099]

Best I had was in 1963 when I had to get from PER to ADL for a job interview at short notice. My father was friendly with the TAA manager at the time and got me on a Vickers Viscount with only 2 others.

Can't remember anything about the service but it was a nice flight.

 

[docjames]

Would be interesting to know if they did the full safety briefing (video) or just an individual briefing for the one pax?

 

[serfty]

That particular flight in all likelyhood carried several tonne of freight ...

 

[harvyk]

I thought crew weren't allowed to give on board upgrades

Who said anything about an on board upgrade? Given the planes very light loadings they needed to position the weight appropriately... (insert laughing emoticon here, for somereason it's not working)

Would be interesting to know if they did the full safety briefing (video) or just an individual briefing for the one pax?

"In the event of an emergency feel free to walk about the plane and chose which ever oxygen mask takes your fancy."

 

[TheInsider]

That particular flight in all likelyhood carried several tonne of freight ...

It did. The a/c hold was full of freight from what i've heard. Ramp guys haven't seen it like that for a while on commercial flights, they were wondering what the hell was going on!

 

[Flying Fox]

This has happened to me before.

I can say it was totally amazing and one of my favourite stories to share with friends (they are all probably sick of me re-telling the story). I won't give a date as I don't want to get anyone into trouble.

So many great details but the shortish version goes like this...... was a late night flight BNE-CNS in J. People in BNE seemed to know me by name calling me Mr Flying Fox all the way through the airport and into the lounge. I was the only one there at that time of night. Hostess came over in person and told me that 'my flight' (she added emphasis) was ready for boarding but I thought nothing of it.

AFP guys directed me to the gate saying 'your flight' was down there etc which I thought was weird.

Got to the gate and three FAs said good evening Mr Flying Fox even before I got my boarding pass out. We chatted before boarding and asked if I was ready to go? I thought that was a weird way of asking me to board. Got on board to a completely empty aircraft and then heard the door close behind me.

All the FAs introduced themselves by first name & told me I was the only pax and gave me the passenger listing as a momento. Was told to sit where ever I wanted.

Pre-flight briefing & welcome was done by co-pilot who came out and sat next to me. He said that the pilot would come out a bit later and say hi.

Lead FA noticed that I was SG and asked if I would mind if we skipped the safety demo. I said yes please as it would have been weird. Anyway, she said that I would be the first passenger to any of the 8 emergency exits that I chose to use. I had to laugh.

Took off and mid flight pilot comes out and says hi. We have a chat for a while.

Lead FA asked me when I would like to eat my meal and they heated it on request. Was given plenty of drinks and attention. Was even given the fruit platter from the crew meal as the FAs weren't hungry. They asked me if it was OK if they sat down behind me to do some paper work. I said please do as it was very odd having the FAs simply hang around waiting for me to move a hand or look for something to do.

Every time I moved at least two FAs would jump up to assist me do whatever I was doing. We chatted more and I had an inflight coughpit visit. So pretty up there. FAs asked about going to CNS. Told them to have a holiday with friends (4 very attractive girls who invited me on their holiday - nothing romantic but still lots of fun). So they loaded up my hand luggage (really heavy to carry when they were finished) with bottles of everything to assist in the festivities. They then said something like 'I'm sorry but that I about all we can give you without getting into trouble'. Mind you they had given me 4 mini-sparkling whites and about 20 mini spirits and other stuff (catering must have thought that the one pax must have had a massive drinking problem when they restocked the aircraft).

Lead FA came back at TOD and asked if I wanted to do the landing with the pilots. I almost jumped out of my skin. So I did the night landing in the coughpit (only other time was in an SQ 747-400 in HGK) and it was amazing. I thanked everyone personally for the once in a lifetime flight.

The girls that invited me on their holiday were waiting in the terminal and they all dropped their jaws when only I got off the jet. They couldn't believe it and we all cracked up laughing when the baggage conveyer started up, my one bag came out and then it stopped!

I told the story to them in the car and now I bore others with it. I will take it to my grave!

Huge thanks to all involved if any of you are reading this (you know who you are)!

 

[Sifor]

Wow fantastic. I hope this happens to me someday, although I don't have high hopes!

I won't give a date as I don't want to get anyone into trouble.!

Fair enough, what about vaguely: pre or post 2001?

 

[BVT]

Two similar expereinces:

In the late 90's I was flying from FCO to LHR latish on a Friday evening. I was the only pasenger in F or J - I cannot remember which, on AZ. Fell asleep as soon as I had buckled up. When I woke up the cabin was dark; there was a not pinned to the back of the seat in front, that basically said "Dear BVT supper is laid out in the Galley, help yourself!"

Didn't see a FA until top of descent.

In 1999, last BNE/MEL flight midweek on AN. Again, only passenger at the pointy end, spent the whole trip in the coughpit chatting with the pilots. Fabulous views on coming in to land.

 

[Warks]

How would it look if while they did the safety demo for you, you buried your face in a newspaper and ignored them? :mrgreen:

That would be a looooong flight!

 

[LiamR]

How would it look if while they did the safety demo for you, you buried your face in a newspaper and ignored them? :mrgreen:

I remember when I did my first flight on one of the new VA BSI 737s. It was a few days after Virgin Blue became Virgin Australia so the crew hadn't been on the aircraft before.

I was the only one in J, and the cabin crew, who is use to starting at 180 other economy pax said it felt very weird in a private cabin with only one other person in it!

 

[globalexplorer]

I was one of four last year on a late night GA flight from Denpassar to Jakarta. Interestingly, they sat us all together towards the rear of the aircraft and didn't let us move!