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Eastern Airlines (remember them??). Flight from YYZ-MIA on a L1011. The crew had brought the aircraft up very late the night before, and were over their legal hours, so we had to wait for them to find a new crew. Probably some of the pax got rebooked on other flights, but I chose to wait it out. Finally boarded about two hours late, to find that there were only 10 pax on board, with a crew of eleven. Had a long friendly chat with an FA for most of the three hour flight, and excellent service all the way.

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I was recently on an AS flight (SJC-SEA) that had more people in F (9) than in Y (8). (At that point, I'm not sure it made too much of a difference between F and Y - since nearly everyone in Y had their own row.)

Mike

Back in June of this year, I was flying back from SFO to CHO, with a connection in PIT (this was before US Airways "de-hubbed" PIT). When my Trans States Jetstream 41 prop job to Charlottesville arrived at the gate, only one---count 'em, one---passenger, got off! The aircraft and its sole revenue passenger came from TRI (Tri-Cities, Tennessee); the same pilot, co-pilot, and FA continued on to CHO. Interestingly, the plane was completely full on my PIT-CHO segment.

I wonder how much money US Airways and Trans States lost on that single TRI-PIT flight!

The emptiest flight I've been on, personally, was the morning CLT-CHO three weeks ago, on a Monday morning no less. Only five of us on a 38-passenger Dash 8 turboprop.

I was on an NW flight in Feb 04 in an RJ from DET-EWR and there couldn't be more than 10 people total. I asked the lady if I could move to 1st class and she said fine, I just said I wanted to sleep.

In November I flew MEX-SCL on a 767-200 and there were only about 30 pax on the plane, 6 in Business Class and the rest in coach.

Flew HNL-ITO way back with only four people on the AQ 732 jet (seats, 120ish I believe). Was truly an empty flight, but no upgrades to first...

aloha

No wonder DL is de-hubbing DFW - I flew a DFW-SEA flight one Monday evening in 1/04 with about 25 passengers on board the MD-90. I also recall a AA MD-80 SYR-ORD back in 11/00 which had a mechanical delay, and all the connecting pax were rerouted - when we finally left there probably weren't more than 25 of us. Of course mainline AA in SYR is now RIP.

Probably the lowest pax count was a Saturday morning in 11/01, a UA RJ IAD-RDU with 9 passengers on board.

I flew YYZ-YOW on AC, this was when AC and CP had merged but were still running separate flights. My flight left with 5 people on it (it was the CP version). Most people booked AC as they didn't think CP was still available

Great service, even though the flight is only 1:10

In the early 80s, a redeye from LAX to EWR had only 4 passengers. We all moved up to FC. When we landed, the FAs announcement said, "Thank you for sleeping with UA today."

Hello,

it was one year ago, mid-november, on a rainy early Saturday-morning: LH MUC-ZRH, I shared a whole 733 with another pax. Before take-off, the captain came to the cabin and told us, he will not make an announcement during the flight, if we have a question about the flight, we should ask him now... (unfortunately a flight-deck-visit was not possible, and due to turbulence, an extended breakfast was not possible...).

Greetings Patrick

I've been on two flights where I was the only passenger.

One was a Suckling Airways DO228 from AMS to Ipswich (RIP) in about 1987. I was a regular on the route, and was on first-name terms with most of the staff. I had the shortest safety briefing ever on this flight - it consisted of the words "You know where everything is, don't you?"

The other flight was on Air Bremen (RIP) from BRE to STN, also in the late 1980s. The crew decided to pretend they had a full complement of passengers, and kept making announcement like "If you are seated on the left you will see..." "If you are seated on the right you will see...". Obediently I got up out of my seat several times to see what was on the other side... until the FA came up to, just as we started the North Sea crossing, to suggest that I might like to sit in the cockpit so that I could see the left and right at the same time! Needles to say I jumped at the opportunity... Once we reached the English coast I started pointing out landmarks to them ("There's Harwich on the left - Felixstowe on the right - and that little dot there is my house"), and when they discovered I was a private pilot they invited me to stay in the cockpit for the landing. It was one of those flights I'll never forget... and I was quite sad when Air Bremen ceased operations not long after.

February or March 1971. 12 passengers total on a PanAm 747 from London to New York. I was taking my 4-month old daughter back to the states from Turkey to visit my parents and had already spent 20 hours in the air and in airports when we boarded the flight at Heathrow. I looked and felt like the walking dead and still had to change planes in New York and Chicago before finally ending up in Indianapolis. The FA's moved everyone up to First Class and we traveled in luxury. They took special pity on me, made me a comfortable bed upstairs in the lounge and took care of the baby for 3 hours while I slept. I still have a polaroid of her propped up in the pilots seat wearing his cap -- although you can't even see her -- just a picture of a cap with legs sticking out from under it. That was a flight I'll never forget.

Ok, I'm sitting here on a Sunday morning enjoying this thread and I'm just wondering if anyone knows of flights with no pax on board ?

Yes. This summer I was flying Iair IAD-ROC-IAD and was talking to the GA at ROC during a delay and she was telling me that once or twice fly a CRJ to BUF empty with just crew. Edited to Add: No these were not repositioning flights, these were regularly scheduled flights.

My personal empiest flight was a B1900D MCI-CID when I was in high school on USAirways Express/ Air Midwest. There was the crew plus 3 passengers onboard; of the three passengers there was myself and one other student going to a program at the University of Iowa and one other gentleman, were it not for our program starting that day the flight would have had one person. Of course the other student and I were very careful about verifying that the bags we got off the claim were in fact our bags.

This month I flew Bilbao Spain (BIO)- MAD on Spanair. It was as 1130ish flight on an MD-80 series aircraft and there were maybe 30 people on board the whole aircraft.