mia-dfw.....eastern in late 70's....3 in y.... we were assigned the same row on 1 side.....moved when door was closed...

Not quite as extreme as some here but the emptiest flight I've been on was BA from LHR-MAN last year.

Can't have been more than about 30 people!

Yes, I'd have been flew the empties flight from LAS-PHX. It just only 15 or 20 passengers. Because it was light loads during the day before Christmas.

Early 80's. I was the ONLY passenger on a United DC-8 from SFO to OAKLAND (8 miles). Apparently it was a positioning flight. The Aircraft was in SFO for maintenance and then ferried to OAK to start the scheduled OAK-SAC-ORD route.

Dragonair in J. A330 ~ Just me.
delays in Pudong had them moving everyone forward, I didn't noticed they changed my flight @ checkin, and went to lounge. When I went to gate they were wondering why I hadn't got on the earlier flight.
They put me on the empty A330 (original flight) that was ferrying back with just crew an hour later.

LHR to BLR in IT in September 2008.Not more than 10 including me in Y and 2 in F on a A330 !!. I flew IT to see what the fuss was about (they had just started that route a few days before).came back the next day and the load was slightly better(maybe 15 in Y LOL)

LAS-LAX on WN last summer. 6 people (4 of which were nonrevs like myself.) About 5000 feet after takeoff, we are notified that we have to turn back around & land due to broken nav equip. So, also my shortest flight!

Back in 1998, LH A-300 (3 class, remember those?) FRA-CAI-ADD. FRA-CAI was full, but most everyone got off at CAI. Maybe thirty or so people continued onto ADD. My Dad was in paid C with my brother and I in Y and we self-upgraded. My only time doing so.

While I love reading flyertalk - I don't post much... but this is finally a thread I could relate to.

My best memory of an empty flight was flying on SN Brussels in 2005 - full flight from Brussels to Dakar, Senegal - couple sitting next to me going on their honeymoon. Almost everyone gets off and no new passengers added for the next leg - Dakar to Monrovia, Liberia. I think it was a 777 - big plane - there were about 15-20 people in Y... Liberia was in a transitional government, most of the people on the plane were UN types or aid workers.

I flew UA SFO- NRT about 2 weeks after 9/11. There were only about 50 passengers in coach on a 747. The flight attendants made an announcement that many were being furloughed after completion of their flights.

I've posted upthread about twice being the only person on a Continental B1900 in 2005 TCB-MIA/MIA-TCB

Last month I was on an Etihad A320 from KWI-AUH (4:05am departure)
I was the only person up front and there were maybe 8 or 9 people in Y

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Early 2001 we flew CDG-DEL on AF. About 5 people in an long-haul config Airbus (forgot which model) in Y. Cabin was good for 200+ passengers. We knew all FAs by name afterwards :)

Must've been an A330-300, SN never operated the Boeing 777.

Jan 1, 2012 on UA, SFO-LAS. 27 people on a 752.

I flew on Easter Sunday from DFW to Philadelphia about 15 yrs ago on a Mad Dog with 7 people on it. The FA's put on an egg hunt for the group with snacks in the plastic eggs just to lighten it up. Nicely done!!