Nearly empty flights
Aug 22, 2011, 9:08 pm
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Nearly empty flights
While waiting for a flight at LAX on Sunday night I noticed the flight for Denver that showed only 14 people checked in for the flight within an hour of flight time. Board showed 224 seats available and 31 available for upgrade. This was flight 218 which I couldn't find in the United timetables?
What are the fewest passengers (# and %) that people have seen on a flight?
Also first try at inserting images, so hopefully this works...
What are the fewest passengers (# and %) that people have seen on a flight?
Also first try at inserting images, so hopefully this works...
Aug 22, 2011, 9:12 pm
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Aug 22, 2011, 9:53 pm
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There was a flight a few years back LHR-??? (some EU destination... maybe GVA, BRU, ZRH... or something like that) That had several of the runs get everyone in F/C because of the light loads.
Aug 22, 2011, 9:57 pm
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Aug 22, 2011, 10:32 pm
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Aug 22, 2011, 10:44 pm
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I have been the only one on a plane... and this was the day before Thanksgiving, no less...
Aug 22, 2011, 10:47 pm
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Aug 23, 2011, 1:15 am
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Amazes me still to no end boarding an empty plane..
You would think with the airline marketing machines.. that they could make money somehow with the empty seats.. even though the planes need to go to another destination as a result of flight scheduling..
You would think with the airline marketing machines.. that they could make money somehow with the empty seats.. even though the planes need to go to another destination as a result of flight scheduling..
Aug 23, 2011, 1:45 am
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Neil
Aug 23, 2011, 7:22 am
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Has happened to me twice in the past year. Once flying MSP-HND about 4 days after the earthquake, maybe 50 people on a 747. Then a couple months later on delta's inagural BOS-LHR run, both ways were about 30 people on the whole plane.
