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Student Is the Only Passenger on 8-Hour Flight in Viral Video
A college student was boarding an eight-hour international flight from London to Orlando, Florida, when he realized that he was the only passenger on the plane. (www.newsweek.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
as a federal employee you should have known better than to go on strike. just be happy you weren't in the military and tried that - you would still be serving time in the brig.
I enjoyed my time in the Air Force, also…As an intercept control tech..
Life is an ever flowing experience…
I’m happy
Life is an ever flowing experience…
I’m happy
BA would not send me out on a earlier nearly empty flight instead keeping me on the over sold later flight, even though I was early, willing, and able!
Not only that, but with a horrible attitude!
Not only that, but with a horrible attitude!
Almost certainly a stupid question here from me not involved with the airline industry, but wouldn't it have been far less loss for the airline to have waved a bit of incentive money in front of him to take a later flight and just not have flown the plane at all? I know when I was a starving college student if you waved a bit of cash in front of me you could have not only gotten me to switch flights but gotten me to sit out on the wing the entire flight as well ;)
Welcome to logistics! There were plans for an airplane to make a flight from Orlando to somewhere, based on the successful completion of that flight from London to Orlando. You can imagine how nightmarish this game of Musical Airplanes gets when even a localized storm results in five airplanes not being where they are supposed to be, or an airplane gets stuck due to a mechanical issue popping up. Much appreciation for those who manage fleet logistics.
ok, thanks, yeah that makes sense, probably should have occurred to me - even if no passengers need to be there, the plane still does!
We had 2 747s grounded due to wx and had to find hotels for around 600 people…..
That was crazy……
In 73 I got hired by the FAA as a controller
That was fun, too, until we went on strike in 81 and got fired….
At least I got to meet Elvis when he came to perform in AZO….Cheers, miss aviation