Originally Posted by Aviatrix

There were two occasions when I was the only passenger on a scheduled flight (there have been many many occasions when I was the only person in a light aircraft...)

Both these flights are fondly remembered.

The first one was from IPW (Ipswich, UK - now closed) to AMS, some time between 1986 and 1988. (The aircraft was a DO228) I was a regular on the route, and on first-name terms with the FA.

Her safety brief went something like:

"You know where everything is, don't you?"

The other flight was a turboprop flight from BRE to STN, on a long-gone airline called Air Bremen. The flight crew seemed to try their best to pretend they had a whole plane load of passengers...:

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you're sitting on the right you will see the Dutch North Sea islands"

"Ladies and gentlemen if you look to your left you will see Amsterdam Schiphol"

I played along with them and obediently moved from left to right back to left, depending on their announcements.

The FA must have told the captain about this when she took him his coffee... when she returned she invited me to go to the flight deck so that I could "get a better view"

Best of all, when the captain found out I was a private pilot he asked me to stay for the landing - this was long before 9/11, of course.