Sure it does! I never saw anyone else enter the aircraft :)

HAN-BKK on Qatar. Flew that 2 times, years apart, both times fairly empty, I would say about 2/3. On one of those, I read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers chapter 7, specifically about airplane crashes. Very appropriate place to read it - and it wasn't planned.

Many years ago an Ansett 737 MEL-PER, my wife and I in F (that is how long ago it was) in row 1, Three other passengers in Y in the very last row....

Just a few months ago. Business class on Etihad from BOM-AUH, on an A380. As far as I could tell, there was one other person on the entire top floor, and he was asleep before takeoff. There may have been more people up there (it's got a couple divisions, so they could have been hidden), but as far as I (and the staff) were concerned it was my flight. They encouraged me to take off and land in a window seat, and move to the middle to spread out and dine. Not a bad trip.

I don't know, but I might hold the record.

Had a fully crewed 777-300ER on TG between HKT-BKK all for my self. Was free to choose any seat on board, even though I was booked in Y. Also got a personal greeting from the captain over the PA system. Was surreal to walk around that empty aircraft once in the air.

Where did you sit. How many meal choices were there? :p

I was once the only passenger on a CRJ-200. The pilot made all announcements calling me by name as he did so. I asked the FA if I could do the safety announcements myself since I had them memorized from so much flying but that was a no-go.

Once I had a Beech 1900D for myself back in the early 1990´s (KSF-ERF)
Just a ~20 mins flight anyway ...


... and the emptiest widebody flight I ever had was a SCOOT B 777-200 between HKG and SIN in 2014.
Me in "Scoot Biz" and only 2 others in "Scoot Biz" but Economy was not much better - only maybe 30-40 passengers.

AirTran flight a few years ago. 1 of 2 people in FC(Man getting upgraded 95% of the time was awesome) and maybe a dozen in main cabin and that is being generous. Was IND to ATL and the last flight out of the day.

A new record for me. Yesterday's SBY-PHL ERJ-145 had a total of three people on it including me. The gate agent still boarded by group numbers and the flight attendant still insisted on giving me an exit row briefing.

What? You mean for 3 people she went through what, 8 groups??

LOL

1996 Flying State College, PA to DTW (on the way back to MSP) I had the whole plane (all of 6 seats, IIRC) to myself. The pilot was about 15 years old and giggled through the safety briefing at a million words per minute. It was a NWA flight (probably Mesaba as NWA Airlink) but I can't find anything online about aircraft that small that they'd have had. While I was waiting in the airport they came over and told me I was the only person on the flight, and when the aircraft door opened to just run out and get on.

Smaller than that. Maybe a Jetstream 31? That looks about right and is the smallest aircraft I could find in NWA colors. It seats 18/19 in 6 rows, which is consistent with my foggy memory of "6 seats". They retired them in 1998. Back then anybody could go into the secure area of the airport, so my mom met me at the gate with lunch in DTW and I switched to a later flight back to MSP (no same day change fee or anything).

I did a little googling, and the State College airport extended the runway in 1997, so now everybody flies mainline aircraft there, but in 96 they were probably limited to smaller turboprops. I can't find the old runway length, though.

Yep! She paged Concierge Key, then Group 1, then 2, then 3 and I came up and asked her why she was going by group numbers and she said she got audited and if she didn't she'd get into trouble.