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Doubt anyone can top this. I was the ONLY passengers on a 747 from the US west coast to Asia. Just me and two pilots on a 12 hour flight. I made them coffee about 20 minutes after take off and didn't hear from them again until we were about to land. Kinda creepy being the only one on such a large airplane for such a long flight. But I know how to use the ovens and coffee maker so I was fine.
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Originally Posted by trajanc
(Post 19613448)
Ehh, if every thread had to be original this board would be like 3 pages long. Which I guess would be perfect for some.
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Originally Posted by gglave
(Post 19614584)
Not at all - Lots of new topics, but for an identical topic like this, with a good 9/11 story like you have - Why wouldn't you post that in the original thread instead of a brand new identical thread?
My personal preference in these situations is to let the thread have its run for a week or so and then merge it into the older, larger thread if appropriate. However I don't regard this question as terribly important. As I noted, it's a matter of personal preference. Let the OP have his week in the sunshine: That rewards a good post. |
Emptiest flight? Two come to mind.
One was DTW > MSP on the way back from Jamaica. We had an A319 and there were probably 15 of us on the flight and 4 were our group. Was later in the evening but I don't recall what time. The other one I remember was from ORD > MSP on NWA or UAL. We took a 747 for the flight because either there was a problem with the other aircraft or they wanted to fly the 747 out of MSP for the next flight. Anyway, there were probably 50 of us on that flight but it just seemed empty since it was such a big plane. |
Originally Posted by nsx
(Post 19614603)
As I noted, it's a matter of personal preference. Let the OP have his week in the sunshine: That rewards a good post.
Crossposting is banned - If I want to ask a specific question about travelling on the Eurostar between London and Paris with children I can only pose the question on one forum, even though there's likely at least three, if not four forums where I'd get excellent and useful feedback from FT members - If I crosspost I'm slapped down. If, on the other hand, I want to start an entirely new thread that's a duplicate of a long existing thread (reclining / empty planes / seat poaching / advance boarding etc.) that's perfectly fine. I guess I just don't get it, but it is what it is :) |
Originally Posted by gglave
(Post 19621787)
If I want to ask a specific question about travelling on the Eurostar between London and Paris with children I can only pose the question on one forum, even though there's likely at least three, if not four forums where I'd get excellent and useful feedback from FT members - If I crosspost I'm slapped down.
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Originally Posted by nsx
(Post 19622012)
Cross-posting is undesirable
What I don't understand (per my post above) is why crossposting is banned, yet the repeated duplication of identical threads is happily allowed. As a regular FTer, seeing the same threads repeated over and over again is much more annoying that seeing a question about crossing the US/Canada border posted in both the Canada and West forums would be. Surely it's
Originally Posted by nsx
(Post 19622012)
better to have a discussion in one place at a time
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About 20 on a NW DC-9 ORD-MSP right after 9/11, after spending most of the day in the lounge and watching rolling cancellations of one flight after another. Everyone was traveling alone and looked grim that day.
One a happier note, I've been one of two in SQ FC (747, but I don't remember the sector) and one of two in DL BE, the latter on an A 330 HND-LAX. Both were low award tickets using DL miles. |
Was the only passenger on a Saab 340 from SPS to DFW. That was back in the 90s
Flew on a converted all FC AA F100 from LAX to DAL. Had around 50 seats and only 4 or 5 passengers on board. That was back in 2000 when AA competed with another airline on flights out of DAL |
Repositioning flights
I have yet to find an airline who will admit to having these flights....Every person I get on the phone, says, I'm sorry there is no such thing as a repositioning flight. So, what do I do from here?
Originally Posted by dabears1020
(Post 12949376)
I took a flight from YYC-LAX last month that was probably only about 5-10% full. It was the last flight of the night so I assume that Air Canada didn't want to cancel it just so they didn't strand the handful of us at the airport. It was rather odd being in a nearly empty aircraft for the duration of the entire flight. No one else was seated within 6 or 7 rows of us.
It got me thinking, what's the emptiest flight you've ever been on? It seems like lately it's become the standard to just cancel severely underbooked flights and reshuffle the passengers to other flights, so empty flights like this are becoming a rarity. Does anyone have any unique experiences regarding flights like this? |
World Airways on Christmas Day
Years ago when I was a travel agent, I booked a flight on Christmas Day to London on World Airways. I had a 1st class ticket and picked that day since I knew there wouldn't be many other passengers. Indeed there weren't, and my dreams of attentive 1st class service dissolved, because the flight crew knew I was a travel agent on a non-rev ticket and said, "Just let us know if you'd like anything," and then disappeared for most of the flight! Best-laid plans.....
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The emptiest flight you've ever been on
January 2010, LGW to ACE with air lingus no more than 20 on board. Was Travelling with a 3 and 6 year old, great flight as lots of space for them to play and move around.
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I was traveling DCA-ORD about 10+ years ago. To my recollection it was a late-night flight, with not that many people aboard, clustered mostly to the front. Before we started taxiing, the pilot hops on the intercom: "Ladies and gentlemen, for takeoff only, I'll need everyone to move to the rear of the plane. Once we have reached cruising altitude, you can return to normal seats. Thank you."
Not helping was the priest sitting across the aisle from me, who crossed himself before getting up to move to the back of the plane. |
CLT to Provo, T & C Islands. February 2004. The connection was suppose to be a little over an hour.
There was an ice storm moving in the Charlotte area. As we were taxing to the gate, the FAs announced that "anyone one trying to make the Provo connection was to run, and I mean run to gate XYZ, do not stop!" We did indeed sprint to the gate. It was the funniest event. We are out of breath and raced on, only to see a handful of people sitting on the plane. There couldn't have been more than 20 people. I asked my husband which seats and he said "does it matter?' I guess US Airways wanted to get that plane off the ground before the storm, we left at least 30 minutes early. |
I was one of four passengers on an Alaska MD-82 from PDX to SAN on July 4th 2001. Awesome flight!
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