Passenger stunned after booking flight only to get ‘private’ plane experience

A MAN was left stunned after turning up for his delayed flight – only to be the only person onboard.

Passenger Phil Stringer was due to fly with American Airlines to Charlotte in North Carolina, only for his flight to get delayed by 18 hours.

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While the rest of the passengers didn’t turn up, presumably having managed to get seats on flights departing earlier, he remained on the original flight.

He explained in a TikTok video: “I am the only person on the plane and they have an entire flight crew – they do not want to do this flight.

“They pulled them from the hotel to come to do this flight for just one person.”

He asked how many bags were loaded on the plane, to which they said there was only one.

He then videoed the flight crew doing the safety demonstration just for him, to which they jokingly told him to “focus” when he wasn’t paying attention.

Despite saying they didn’t want to do the flight, the crew also had fun with him as they relaxed on the flight, taking selfies with Phil.

Phil added in the comments: “18-hour delay turned this flight into a private party”.

He also praised the “amazing crew” on the flight and said while they didn’t do cart service, they gave him whatever he wanted during the flight.

More than 4.2million people have liked the video.

One person said: “That’s probably the best flight they ever had.”

Another agreed: “As a former flight attendant…I would have loved to work this flight.”

But some prospective passengers said they wouldn’t have enjoyed it.

One commented: “I’d be apologising for no reason the entire flight.”

Phil isn’t the only person this has happened to.

A passenger was the only person on their flight to Fiji earlier this year.

And a group of people were upgraded to business class when they were the only three people to board their British Airways flight.

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