Anyone ever experience a solo flight on UA?
May 25, 2014, 2:42 pm
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UX flight -- FSD-(PIR?)-HON --- 1 human passagner but at the immediate stop we added a (hunting?) dog. (25-30 years and not sure if it was PIR or ABR.)
May 25, 2014, 7:40 pm
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I'm sure some remember the 747 with the extra biz class seats for Asia market. UA would use that on the 3pm flight from LAX-ORD. There were just a couple times when they had everyone sitting in the UD and the two business class cabins downstairs were empty. I miss those days of domestic 747s and 777s. People would get on the plane and be excited to fly the 747 for the first time.
Incidentally, my emptiest UA flight was the 9 PM MRY-LAX CRJ-200 back in 2011. Five people including me. The fact that it had gotten delayed helped as people bailed onto the MRY-SFO flight.
May 25, 2014, 7:46 pm
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On an RJ145 in 2012 from AEX-IAH I was one of three passengers on the last flight of the day. We left seven minutes after the incoming flight arrived at the gate which was 25 minutes before scheduled departure because we were the only confirmed passengers on the flight.
May 25, 2014, 9:21 pm
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Had a flight in mid 2000s YYZ-ORD. Don't remember the exact details, but YYZ had a snowstorm and ORD was bad weather too. The '5pm' 757 was delayed and I was on the 7pm. Both planes at the gate with delay but confirmations crew as legal and we'd be going...so went to the AC lounge. No announcements / pages or anything. Went to gate around boarding time and apparently they had tried to put all the 7pm pax on the 5pm 757, but couldn't find me and two others in Y.
The(foiled) plan was to deadhead the 7pm crew and ferry plane back to ORD. 3 of us spoiled that, so we boarded and had A320 to ourselves (could've been 737 but seem to remember 3 F rows). The funny thing was me in F and 2 in first row of Y. And they didn't upgrade the two in Y who had some type of status to be in bulkhead...which probably would have been easier on the crew.
Probably violated a policy of some sort but they made 'us' go through the safety briefing to see if we ever paid attention in a Q&A...it was all good fun from start to finish and personalized service throughout the flight.
The look on the gate agents in ORD when we arrived to ORD bad weather chaos and 3 of us exited to a packed gate hoping to get wherever this plane was trying to go was priceless...sort of a...we have 100 standbys trying to go out on every remaining flight tonight and 3 of you walk of this plane????
The(foiled) plan was to deadhead the 7pm crew and ferry plane back to ORD. 3 of us spoiled that, so we boarded and had A320 to ourselves (could've been 737 but seem to remember 3 F rows). The funny thing was me in F and 2 in first row of Y. And they didn't upgrade the two in Y who had some type of status to be in bulkhead...which probably would have been easier on the crew.
Probably violated a policy of some sort but they made 'us' go through the safety briefing to see if we ever paid attention in a Q&A...it was all good fun from start to finish and personalized service throughout the flight.
The look on the gate agents in ORD when we arrived to ORD bad weather chaos and 3 of us exited to a packed gate hoping to get wherever this plane was trying to go was priceless...sort of a...we have 100 standbys trying to go out on every remaining flight tonight and 3 of you walk of this plane????
May 25, 2014, 9:53 pm
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Back in the 70's we would take our deer rifles in a soft case onto the plane and give it to the captain who would hand it back upon arrival. Then we would sit in our assigned smoking seats and light up @ wheels up!
Yeah, dem were da days!!! ^
Yeah, dem were da days!!! ^
May 25, 2014, 10:17 pm
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Closest I can come is NRT HNL on CO on a 747-200, only 4 in BusinessFirst out of 50 seats, and Y had barely 40. My friend, and me, and a couple on their honeymoon. I had flown the inagural flight from EWR NRT, continued to HKG, and planned to fly home HKG GUM HNL EWR, but they rerouted us HKG NRT HNL EWR.
Fabulous flight. Heavy turbulence the entire way, but crew was awesome, and didnt' fail to offer every bottle of wine they had on board!
Fabulous flight. Heavy turbulence the entire way, but crew was awesome, and didnt' fail to offer every bottle of wine they had on board!
May 26, 2014, 2:16 am
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A few years ago, I was on a DCA-EWR flight - last one of the day. Only two passengers were me and my boss...nobody else other than crew. FA was awesome and you could tell she wanted to sit and drink with us. Clearly a repositioning flight as they'd otherwise cancel with our collective $250 fare on that segment!
Anyone every been the only passenger on a UA flight?
Anyone every been the only passenger on a UA flight?
May 26, 2014, 5:40 am
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I kissed the ground after the second one.
May 26, 2014, 6:09 am
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They're limited to 19 seats. If the plane has more than 9 seats, is has to operate under 121, and even then a flight attendant still isn't required unless the aircraft has more than 19 seats.
May 26, 2014, 7:18 am
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8 rows of two across, plus the infamous row 9 of three across.
Seat 9C had no seat stowage since it was on the aisle. With the cockpit door/curtain open you could get quite air sick seeing the pitching ahead of you.
There was often a latch that makes a horrible buzzing on takeoff that I used to stick my biz card in to stop...probably a Federal crime for illegally modifying an aircraft in flight.
I flew a 150 segments a year on these on Commut Air back when I carried the bag.
May 26, 2014, 9:13 am
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I saw this thread and had to respond and comment. Twice this year this has happened. Not on UA but the first was Island Air from MKK to HNL in February. It was delayed for 3 hours and most took another flight but I stayed on it. Was quite interesting. The 2nd was on DL CVg to DTW. Was coming back from Vegas and the CVG connection was cheaper. Flight again was delayed and pushed back 4 times. When they called passengers up for rebooking I was the only 1 who DTW was my destination so I sat in 1A on CRJ 700 as only passenger had 4 cocktails and 10 biscoffs.
May 26, 2014, 9:37 am
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One time about 20 years ago when DL was still flying 727's, there were two of us in coach on a late night flight from Sarasota to Atlanta. The FA's went ahead and told us to go ahead and sit in First Class.
Even though it was neat being only two passengers on the plane, it was also kind of spooky. The back of the plane was dark and empty. Weird feeling.
PS...I vividly remember beings that this flight was basically totally empty how fast the flight got airborne. Again, weird feeling.
Even though it was neat being only two passengers on the plane, it was also kind of spooky. The back of the plane was dark and empty. Weird feeling.
PS...I vividly remember beings that this flight was basically totally empty how fast the flight got airborne. Again, weird feeling.
May 26, 2014, 10:14 am
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May 26, 2014, 11:57 am
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Looong ago, the was a 6AM 757 ORD-YYZ flight. It was a Wednesday and there was myself in FC, a passenger in the emergency exit aisle by the door (first row in coach) and the crew.
I'm sure some remember the 747 with the extra biz class seats for Asia market. UA would use that on the 3pm flight from LAX-ORD. There were just a couple times when they had everyone sitting in the UD and the two business class cabins downstairs were empty. I miss those days of domestic 747s and 777s. People would get on the plane and be excited to fly the 747 for the first time.
I'm sure some remember the 747 with the extra biz class seats for Asia market. UA would use that on the 3pm flight from LAX-ORD. There were just a couple times when they had everyone sitting in the UD and the two business class cabins downstairs were empty. I miss those days of domestic 747s and 777s. People would get on the plane and be excited to fly the 747 for the first time.