Chinese woman becomes 'world's luckiest passenger'

Plenty of leg room, personalised service and no crying babies or unruly fellow passengers.

LONDON: -- That was what one lucky traveller in China experienced while flying home to Guangzhou for the New Year holiday.

Delays meant all other passengers had swapped to an earlier flight, leaving Ms Zhang to enjoy the "rockstar" trip.

Flying rather than going by train also meant she avoided huge delays which saw around 100,000 people stranded at Guangzhou station this week.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35480239



-- BBC 2016-02-03

I fail to see why this makes her the world's luckiest passenger.

I fail to see why this makes her the world's luckiest passenger.

I can. But I'm not allowed to say why. Meanwhile, back on the mean streets of Pattaya ....

All her pictures are in Coach. Plane to herself and they don't upgrade her to First Class?

I fail to see why this makes her the world's luckiest passenger.

Well, it was the Chinese who said it...

Chinese netizens have dubbed her the world's 'luckiest passenger'

...so they must know something about travelling in a plane full of fellow citizens...

Meh. There was a story barely a week ago about an Austrian travel-blogger flying from Manila to Boracay in the Philippines and ending up being the only passenger on that flight as well.

The best I've managed was one trip when Gulf Air had just wet-leased a shiny new 777 from somewhere and were offering special promo fares for their Bahrain-Bangkok flights. First Class was only about $200 more than I normally paid for Business Class so I splurged. Ended up being the only person in First Class so I had my own personal chef and 4 flight attendants.

(Due to poor bookings they switched that plane to a European route before I flew back. Worked out well for me though as Gulf Air flew me back Business Class for free and told me when I got "home" to have my travel agent get the return leg of my original First Class ticket refunded, which they did. I ended up flying 1st Class to Bangkok and Business Class on the return for basically the cost of a Business Class ticket one-way + $200.)

One passenger really now that's worth it for the airline $180.00 seat for like $10,000 in fuel + employee salary ???

they couldn't wait for more passengers or delay the flight for the next day ???

Not a big deal but nice. Once I had the whole row empty to stretch out on and I thought I was lucky. Not exactly a big news story.

I fail to see why this makes her the world's luckiest passenger.

Me neither! They never even bumped her up to Business or First Class.

One passenger really now that's worth it for the airline $180.00 seat for like $10,000 in fuel + employee salary ???

they couldn't wait for more passengers or delay the flight for the next day ???

Probably needed the plane and staff to get to Guangzhou to service the next flight(s).

Flew from Singapore to Bangkok when Bangkok was flooded. There was myself and 5 others onboard. There was more staff than passengers. I guess the fact the world thought the whole of Bangkok was underwater helped. In fact came by taxi to Sukhumvit and the tyres didnt even get wet. All the Sukhumvit/tourist areas was okay

Many years ago,I was once on a flight where I was the only passenger. It was actually quite an eerie experience. There was only one airline hostess who disappeared into the cockpit. The service was crap.

One passenger really now that's worth it for the airline $180.00 seat for like $10,000 in fuel + employee salary ???

they couldn't wait for more passengers or delay the flight for the next day ???

You might want to think that through a bit...

If they dont get the plane back, the people waiting to get on the next flight(s) it has to make will be stranded.

So no, they cannot just let the plane and staff just sit there.

Many years ago,I was once on a flight where I was the only passenger. It was actually quite an eerie experience. There was only one airline hostess who disappeared into the cockpit. The service was crap.

Pilot got good service by the sound of it!

Many years ago,I was once on a flight where I was the only passenger. It was actually quite an eerie experience. There was only one airline hostess who disappeared into the cockpit. The service was crap.

I guess that's why they call it a cockpit.

Edit: Damn - Pedro beat me to it.

Edited February 6, 201610 yr by JetsetBkk

caught the new morning rocket train out of butterworth not long ago. yes it was only me. as above, it was eerie. was thinking the locals knew something i didnt and so avoided it. no issues eventuated. two people got on at the next stop. by getting off time it was moderately populated. still no trains north that you can get to after getting your thai visa back after 2pm.

check'em at https://intranet.ktmb.com.my/e-ticket/login.aspx

Edited February 6, 201610 yr by Buddumber