"Welcome aboard sir , your the only one travelling with us tonight"

[oldenglishwhitemga]

Yep!

Once, and on an international leg out of HK. Travelling Business and using points for the two of us.
A whole 747 and crew. A very quiet trip. Lots of self service, the crew left all the booze and nibbles out after too much dinner. Nice!
But it was a few years ago.

 

[nonscenic]

In Feb 1996 I was one of about 10 PAX on the 6am AN flight from MEL- SYD. Most of the cabin crew had come straight to work from the Desperate and Dateless Ball, told us to move into J where they served pre take off J drinks followed by normal Y Breakfast.

 

[drross]

Best I ever managed was during the refuelers stick in the late 80s or early 90s. I was in Mt Isa awaiting a private charter to Alice Springs to connect with the north bound flight to Darwin. Got to the airport , no problems with next leg to Alice as Mt Isa was a private contractor but no hope of getting from Alice to Darwin. Not sure what to do until an Ansett jet and an Australian jet both landed at the Isa - neither scheduled but the airlines were using Mt Isa to refuel so that brisbane to cairns or townsville was via Isa both ways to take on fuel. Got a seat on a sydney (mt isa) darwin flight - 12 of us on the plane.. staff, Jimmy Barnes and family ( and some road crew), and me. Tour of flight deck included. I think Jimmy landed the plane in Darwin - roughest landing i've experienced for years.

 

[aspace]

Yes - I have flown solo from Melbourne to Tasmania, back in the day when Essendon Airport was operating. I know it's not the same as a jet, as it was a 12 seater, but it really felt like my own private jet. I was only about 19 and wasn't sure where to sit as I didn't want to appear aloof by sitting at the back, but didn't want to chat to the pilot all trip...so I sat in the middle. I never thought to ask if it happened alot. When he dropped me off at a paddock that was the airport in Stanley, the pilot could see I was a little lost and got out of the plane to remove a birds next from the top of the telephone (I kid you not) so I could call a taxi...which also doubled as the local school bus so I had to wait for the afternoon drop off to end.

The pilot jumped back in the plane and flew back to Essendon alone. Can't remember how much the ticket was, but it wouldn't have covered the price of fuel.

 

[QFMEL]

Not counting non-commercials, closest I've come is 4 pax on a LH 744, KUL-BKK.

 

[JBH]

Wife & I were on a BA flight JFK > LHR back in Jan 1999 we were the only pax in J upstairs (747) version with very small J cabin think only three rows and a spiral stair case, anyhow we were invited by the flight crew to join them in the coughpit after take off early and experienced the most amazing views as we tracked north over Boston into CAD, I recall the coughpit door being open for most of the flight and we visited again several times during the night, service & food was superb.

 

[cbourl]

This year - Lufthansa flight from Milan Malpensa to Munich 19/8 2050 on an A321
4 of us - the 4 staff onboard welcomed us all to our "private jet" - they said we could sit anywhere we canted to - great service
About halfway through the flight one of the attendants came to me with a big bag of smoked almonds and a bottle of nice french champagne - he told me to enjoy it
Now when checking in , the Malpensa staff in LH uniforms were all in a tiss because I'd checked in online and they 3 times changed my seating - they said it had to do with balancing the aircraft wit hso few passengers on board - and as a Senator they put me at the back of the plane - no other elite memebers on board accocrding to the purser onboard - she said the Malpensa staff were just being diffficult, that they were not emploed by Lufthansa and she said it didnt matter where people sat - she reiterated she said we could sit anywhere we liked
Go Lufthansa!

Oh and on September 6 thius year - in J - just 2 of us on an A330-300 doing the SYD-ADL run before it headed from ADL-SIN
c/f Qantas recently on a half full flight to Melbourne - staff at checking and onboard told everyone to stay where they were so that the plane was balanced, and that no -one should move seats

 

[sydunipete]

Just last month I was the only person in J class and Premium Economy on a 737 from Oslo to Reykjavik.




SAS do a great class distincton announcement : "For today's service in Business Class we will be serving a hot lunch, tea, coffee and drinks, in Economy Extra we will be serving cold lunch, tea, coffee and drinks, and in economy you can buy a drink, tea or coffee." Being the only person in the premium classes I felt daggers from the rest of the passengers (several rows behind me).



I had an FA all to myself. As I was getting close to the end of a botle of wine he hovered in front of me and as I squeezed out the last drop he took it from my hand and put a fresh one on the table. Now that's service!

 

[SYDMIA69]

Flew on AA LAX to JFK years ago the flight was canceled, was offered an alternative flight to LGA I declined as I was being met. They did arrange another 767 at the last minute. There were about 15 pax, ordered a few wines and was never asked to pay. A great flight and service with additional dinners offered. The best AA flight ever.

 

[dimmertwin]

Best I can offer is Bangkok-Sydney, Qantas flight when I was one of seven passengers.
excellent treatment.

 

[hopes]

One of two with five FAs on a JAL fight from Tokyo to Guam. Immediately after a typhoon so not surprising.

 

[BVT]

Best I can offer is Bangkok-Sydney, Qantas flight when I was one of seven passengers.
excellent treatment.

Surely with only 7 pax on that flight, there would have been an "engineering problem" that required the flight to be cancelled? Subject to positoning and any other logistical issues, wouldn't it have been cheaper to put the 7 pax in a hotel until the next day or transfer them to BA etc?

 

[drross]

Surely with only 7 pax on that flight, there would have been an "engineering problem" that required the flight to be cancelled? Subject to positoning and any other logistical issues, wouldn't it have been cheaper to put the 7 pax in a hotel until the next day or transfer them to BA etc?

Qantas would 'never' do that ....

 

[dimmertwin]

Qantas would 'never' do that ....

Well, not in those days.

 

[sighing]

Ha ha, love reading this thread.

I remember 4 or 5 years back hopping onto a PAL flight from Cebu to Manila. Its only a 1.5 hr flight but for some reason it was an aging 747. I was flying J class and the front of the plane was completely empty except for me. It felt like a ghost flight for some of the journey (the service was almost non existent). Very eerie flight, I can tell you.

 

[Pointy_End]

March last year flew Lufthansa Frankfurt to Seattle A340 in F... just my partner and myself. Greeted by the Cabin Service Manager when seated before takeoff with the comment that we were to be the "King and Queen" for this flight!!
No complaints about the attentive service lol.

Also flew Asiana Airlines Seoul to Osaka in March this year in J on my own with 29 empty seats... two weeks after the Tsunami and Radioactive scare. Four FA's was indeed a special experience. Drank wayyyyyy too much Sauv Blanc!!

 

[jetkins]

The closest I've ever come to an empty plane was when my wife and I flew MEL-LAX less than a week after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The QF 747 was about 20% occupied, and every one of us in cattle class got a full 3- or 4-seat row to ourselves. Not quite a skybed, but it sure beat sleeping sitting up.

Security on that trip was a bizarre exercise in contrasts - we were practically strip-searched when boarding the QF flight in MEL, but in LAX we of course had to leave the sterile area of the Bradley terminal and re-pass through security in the AA domestic terminal, where we were subjected to nothing more rigorous than a quick scan of our photo ID.

 

[rhjames]

I flew Sydney to somewhere in Europe (or South Africa - can't remember) via Hong Kong with Cathay, and was the only person in first class. I had three beautiful girls to look after my every need (almost). By coincidence, I returned a few days later, and had the same girls. They greeted me by name, and the service was outstanding. Normally, first class is so crowded that you can sometimes see someone else.

Their first class cost was the same as business class on other airlines at that time.

 

[sacolman]

I was never the only passenger, but in 1962 flying between Auckland and Tauronga in NZ I asked the pilot if we are going via the small village of Te Kauwhata and his answer was: "We can, if you like." Some time later the co-pilot came back to tell me that we are soon over the place and the plane descended to give me a good view of the village and the house where I lived in 1956.

 

[benmay]

that is *awesome*