Originally Posted by kryten22uk
The OP sounds like my flight back from LCA last week, albeit mine was on CY. The fun part for me was that after one hour of delay at the terminal, the captain finally pipes up to say that the reason is that they are still waiting for one passenger. ONE PASSENGER!!

I hope to heaven that he was the president or something!
Our delay leaving was due to the time it took to get 6 wheelchairs up in the lift from the tarmac to the plane.
As well as the time it took to explain to 200 or so somewhat confused passengers that row 37 is somewhere behind row 1.