Only Three Passengers on BA Flight Enjoy Champagne and Selfies

From the BBC:

Three British Airways passengers had a once-in-a-lifetime flight after finding they were the only ones on board.

Ms Waller said: “We’re never going to experience anything like that again.”

Something like that once happened to me, it was a small airplane London City to Tessino, Switzerland, it had a capacity of maybe fifty people but there were only five or six of us. So second and third helpings of snacks and booze for everybody.

The plane made a pit stop at a tiny airstrip in the west of Switzerland to let one passenger get off. The stewardess said they were making good time and if anybody wanted to get out for a smoke they were welcome. A couple of us duly decamped to the bar at the side of the tarmac, had another pint and a couple of fags until the stewardess came in and shepherded us back onto the plane.

Not quite as impressive as the BA story, but truly a memorable/once in a lifetime event (I don’t fly that often so I can’t say how often it happens).