My First Time Having A Business Class Cabin All To Myself

Lucky. I thought you were by yourself on Sri Lankan from CMB to MLE on the a330

So lucky, Lucky!

I once forfeited a chance to be one of two passengers on a 757. I was using a hidden city fare and was going to go home at the hub. Out of curiosity, I visited the gate and was told by the gate agent that it was open seating, including sitting in First with my economy ticket.

I was the only passenger once in a 50 seat plane.

I once was the only First Class passenger (with my 10 year old daughter) on a Singapore Airlines flight from Shanghai to Singapore. The purser at 08.30 brought me a bottle of Krug. “Sir, you will be drinking this”. Not at 08.30. At 11.30 I gave in. I savoured the last drops as we touched down in Changi. I was the only Business Class passenger upgraded.

My only time solo in business class was also a short flight. DED to REP on Vietnam Airlines. That meal service was a few levels below Qatar. No champagne nor multiple courses. A super basic chicken and rice with a Bia Hanoi.

Mine was J between BAH-KWI on United. It was so lonely :D.

I'm lucky if Delta has an edible choice during the meal service in domestic first-class on flights under 3 hours.

"Flawless"

Reality: 10 hour delay

I don't know why you cut Qatar slack all the time. I flew them recently based no your reviews. Will avoid them like the plaque from now on. Six hour delay in the desert in the middle of the night is tiring and then another three hour delay on the way back from Australia. Yea. No thanks.

That airline is a complete mess operationally. From 5 flights I had with them 4 got delayed, 1 luggage lost for three (3!) days

I just recently flew HKG BKK on CX 777-300 in F - had the cabin to myself. Loved it

Obviously Qatar hasn't mastered controlling the weather yet. 😉

I've been in solo in first, SIN to MNL. It's wonderful when the bottle of Dom is all yours.

I think Phize might be right.

Last year June I had same experience fly TK from Venice to Istanbul. After boarding, one flight attendant came to tell me that I am the only business class passenger. I can tell she was trying not to laugh. It was very cool feeling like private jet.

I had the same thing this summer ATH-DOH with lie flats on a redeye. Interestingly enough I bought the tix about 6 hours earlier.

The strangest part was when they would deplane Y at bus gate in DOH and they all had to wait for me to leave before they started boarding

Worse English every.

The worse part was they held the Y cabin until I was on a bus at a remote stand.

I’ve had it once, luckily it was Chengdu to Heathrow so I had a good few hours to enjoy!

It was one of the best flights I had (and this was BA CW)

Flew by myself Christmas day Hong Kong to Bali. FlyingBlue wouldn't ticket online and call center said space wasnt available period. So I bought economy and made lowest bid for upgrade and I guess unsurprisingly got it.

@ Phize -- You have better memory than I do! You're absolutely correct, guess I should have known it happened at some point. I stand corrected!

America West: Phoenix to ORD. 1990 or so. Good times.

sri lankan air. upgraded by bidding. think the very first comment mentioned so. champagne bottle all by yourself.

You cant have true privacy if cabin crew can access your space. 🙂

I remember I was the only one in Americans domestic First / Business class one. They ran out of my first meal option.

I was the only passenger on a Qatar business class flight on board a A330, it was a four hour flight from Doha to Dhaka. Think there were four FAs just for me, they were incredibly attentive but all I wanted to do was sleep.

Nice report!
I was wondering if you will be sharing your trip to Armenia with us?
I would like to know what you thought about the country

soo lucky ..
two years ago , I had the same fly experience , but the comedy scene was when the flight attendant came to tell me that I am the only and lonly business on class passenger, then we two laughed so much
really It was amazing experience

Flew alone in short/medium haul J quite frequently in business on intra Europe flights and also regionally in Asia on routes with 1-3 fixed rows of recliner J and also F. Never had a domestic US 'F' business cabin to myself obviously.
@Adrian
Never had that happen to me flying in J to coastal Chinese destinations; in fact load factors are quite high in business these days.

I had a quite good ratio of "cabin all to myself" flights in 2017: 35 Business Class flights, four times alone in C.
QR LXR-DOH (two days before the route was discontinued)
D7 TPE-KUL
LO WAW-TLL and the return LO TLL-WAW

By contrast, all of my 8 First Class flights had additional passengers in the cabin.

I remember one QR flight DOH-LXR, where I shared the C cabin with 5 others, while there were only 3 passengers in Y.

last june I was the only pax in F BKK-ICN on KE 777. It was a cool experience.

Haven't had an empty C cabin yet, but I did get HKG-ICN in KE F on the 748 all to myself last summer.

Ignoring many times as the only passenger on intra-Europe business class, I once had the 49 seat business class to myself on an Air China flight ICN-PEK. It was rather awkward with a 4:1 ratio of cabin crew to me. I had a separate jet bridge to board the plane. Instead of bringing a menu they just made one of each and asked what I preferred. My glass was generally refilled after each sip before the glass had reached the tray table. And the lavatory door was held open for me. Overall it was a fun experience and makes for a good story.

It reminds me of a fantastic flight I had in BA First to JFK....I was the only passenger in First, and the attention was superb... Good food and two bottles of Laurent Perrier...

They wandered what kind of a 'doctor' I was....and kept trying to slip it in to the conversation. They hoped I was a doctor of cosmetic surgery....How wrong they were...Academic....

We were late leaving....the captain came down to apologise personally.

When we arrived at JFK, BA's station manager came to personally escort me through the diplomatic Channel at immigration.... In and out in ten minutes.

@Johnny -

Cool story, brah. I don't think an academic doctor would spell "wondered" with an a. Try again.

I was the only Business class passenger on a Qatar Airway Doha-Luxor flight. And I fell asleep quickly during ascending until a crew wake me up on descending.

What a cool experience. The in flight food looked delicious. I always wanted to fly business class may be soon 🙂

@William Y

It is possible for minds to "wander". In this concept the sentence is correct. Their minds wandering between different ideas.

@CS - DITTO
Why build a new airport if you can't dock all your flights at a main terminal?
Nothing more ghastly than arriving after a long flight and stumble down stairs with loads
of carry-on to a bus. No matter what class.
Quick stroking those 3W airlines that wouldn't be in business without money from the Kingdom.