Flyer Gets Greece Flight All to Herself for $60
Ryan Boyd October 27, 2017
Castle Donington, UK - June 3, 2016: a Boeing 737-330QC (G-CELR) commercial passenger aircraft operated by Jet2 about to land at East Midlands Airport near Nottingham, England.
Jet2 passenger Karon Grieve, the only passenger aboard a recent flight to Greece, claims that she only paid $60 for the flight.
https://twitter.com/KaronGrieve/status/922357366959591424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Ftravel%2Farticle%2Fonly-passenger-in-plane-trnd%2Findex.html
“The girl stood up and was doing the whole thing and she said she had to do it, it’s a legal requirement,” Grieve said of the flight attendant who gave the safety briefing. “She had to do the whole thing in front of me, and I was the only one sitting there. “I couldn’t stop laughing. I just keeled over laughing.”
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Prepositioning leg. They need the airplane in the other city, so it has to fly, regardless of passenger load. The rules say the airplane has to fly with a full crew. At that point, if there's a passenger that needs to get there, there's no reason not to put a passenger on the airplane. Southwest's original two-tier pricing structure arose out of prepositioning legs. They had to move the airplanes ANYWAY, late at night, and somebody had the bright idea of charging a cheap far, basically just enough to cover some of the costs, so the legs weren't QUITE dead losses. It was an instant smash hit, and the rest is history.
This is LCC at it's finest. I bet she still had to pay for her bag, and go through the whole hassle of being at the gate earlier than other airlines and whatnot. You'd think they'd have just cancelled the flight and given her some compensation. But then again maybe the plane was full coming back from Heraklion. I had a much a Wizz Air flight that was at best 50% full, multiple rows totally empty, however when "selecting a seat" all the windows had been blocked, and many aisle seats were already taken. I boarded to find out that was simply BS. These are all part and parcel of the ups/downs of flying LCC.