15/07/2004
Alitalia MD82 I-DAWD
MXP-MAD
35 pax on board
Frederic
What was your flight with the least number of passengers?
Only a couple I can think of....
KLM - AMS to Kuwait in July 2001 - maybe 40 people on a 767-300. I remember because I had the flu and had to go to do a presentation - got the middle 3 seats to myself and slept the whle trip!
Did Bahrain - AMS on the same type in Oct last year and there was apparently 46 onboard according to one of the F/A's.
KLM - AMS to Kuwait in July 2001 - maybe 40 people on a 767-300. I remember because I had the flu and had to go to do a presentation - got the middle 3 seats to myself and slept the whle trip!
Did Bahrain - AMS on the same type in Oct last year and there was apparently 46 onboard according to one of the F/A's.
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Ozzie1969
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An Emu Airways flight from Adelaide to Kingscote in a Cessna 402. I think it was either 10 or 12 people on board (sold out!). Best of all : I was sitting right next to the pilot! 
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Hmmm, I cannot count what was posted before.
4 PAX in an ATR-42 of FU between ZRH and INN back in 2000 (good evening flight at 10 pm. maybe the reason).
and 7 in an ATR72 of EW on behalf of LH ZRH-MUC July 2001 (but one of my most memorable flights because of the pilot which was doing a great sightseeing tour over the Bodensee - Lake Constanz
a sunny summer friday morning and the altitude wasn't high
and with 2 FA for 7 PAX also a very personal service
4 PAX in an ATR-42 of FU between ZRH and INN back in 2000 (good evening flight at 10 pm. maybe the reason).
and 7 in an ATR72 of EW on behalf of LH ZRH-MUC July 2001 (but one of my most memorable flights because of the pilot which was doing a great sightseeing tour over the Bodensee - Lake Constanz
a sunny summer friday morning and the altitude wasn't high
and with 2 FA for 7 PAX also a very personal service
200.000 sexed on board.
Long time ago, in the seventies, I had several flights to Cairo and Middle East with no passengers.
But with 200.000 one-day-chickens. Does that count?
The chicken were hatched in Limburg, and the flight was planned just in time. The morning, the > 200.000 eggs hatched, the chickens were sexed*, then packed and trucked to the airport for immediate boarding.
The first flights had quite some problems:
Some crews were allergic and the aircraft too was allergic.
Indeed these chickens had thin eggyolk powder in their down. And you can imagine the rising temperature once the aircraft was airborn. So the airco had to cool the live cargo.
All that eggyolk powder was clogging the airco systems.
*to find out whether an animal is male or female. With animals its only male OR female. And when you want only hens....
But with 200.000 one-day-chickens. Does that count?
The chicken were hatched in Limburg, and the flight was planned just in time. The morning, the > 200.000 eggs hatched, the chickens were sexed*, then packed and trucked to the airport for immediate boarding.
The first flights had quite some problems:
Some crews were allergic and the aircraft too was allergic.
Indeed these chickens had thin eggyolk powder in their down. And you can imagine the rising temperature once the aircraft was airborn. So the airco had to cool the live cargo.
All that eggyolk powder was clogging the airco systems.
*to find out whether an animal is male or female. With animals its only male OR female. And when you want only hens....
sn
It was an sn brussels flight to Rome 2 years ago. I was the onliest passanger in business class and there was 1 passenger in economy. It was a flight for my job.
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Tannhauser
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I often flew the SN 747 to and from JFK, and I admit that I never saw it less tan half full. Your flight must have been a big exception.Tannhauser wrote:My wife and I flew once Sabena New York JFK to Brussels , mid December 1974 on a 747 , ... with 14 passengers , and that was including us !!
And, by the way, welcome to Luchtzak, Tannhauser. We had already reeceived news submission from you in the past, but this is your first post in the forum
André
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speedbird1
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Yes, Boeing 747's take-offs without passengers makes this baby climb like a rocket in the skies! Amazing... 8O 8Oathos wrote:Twice, KLM from Amsterdam to Delhi - Calcutta. Only around 40 pax on a 747. Pilot told us, standard procedures are, a very fast climb. I can assure you, it was very fast and very powerful one
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Tannhauser
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End November 1974, my wife and I flew from Grand Canyon airport to Las Vegas with Hughes Airwest ( The Yellow Canaries ) in a DC 9 - 30 , with 3 people ( including my wife and I ) . We were also served a fully warm breakfast , by four hostesses and one purser.
I know Howard Hughes was a billionaire ,... but still this flight must have not reached it's breakeven point , ... i think .
Anyway ,... we did enjoy it very much !!!
I know Howard Hughes was a billionaire ,... but still this flight must have not reached it's breakeven point , ... i think .
Anyway ,... we did enjoy it very much !!!
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Mine "least passenger" experience was just like JDarby's experience on Egypt Air.
On 28th of August 2000 I flew on Egypt Air Flight MS-133 from Cairo to Aswan, with a stop in Luxor (Cairo*-LXR-ASW)
* We flew from the airport that only was in use for Domestic flights and all of Egypt Air flights. Does anyone know the airport code of the old Cairo airport? Our guide told us that al the other international airlines had moved to CAI when it was available.
Well, back to the story. Our travel group consisted of 16 people, including me. I can recall that there where very few other passengers, maybe a load factor off 10-15%. The equipment was an Airbus A300-600, so it was quite a nice experience to have such a big bus all for us. After a scheduled landing in Luxor to deplane some people, we flew on to Aswan. And it could be that our travel group where the only ones aboard, because there was no one else in economy class.
We flew in an Airbus A300B4-622R, which was still painted in the old color scheme:
On 28th of August 2000 I flew on Egypt Air Flight MS-133 from Cairo to Aswan, with a stop in Luxor (Cairo*-LXR-ASW)
* We flew from the airport that only was in use for Domestic flights and all of Egypt Air flights. Does anyone know the airport code of the old Cairo airport? Our guide told us that al the other international airlines had moved to CAI when it was available.
Well, back to the story. Our travel group consisted of 16 people, including me. I can recall that there where very few other passengers, maybe a load factor off 10-15%. The equipment was an Airbus A300-600, so it was quite a nice experience to have such a big bus all for us. After a scheduled landing in Luxor to deplane some people, we flew on to Aswan. And it could be that our travel group where the only ones aboard, because there was no one else in economy class.
We flew in an Airbus A300B4-622R, which was still painted in the old color scheme:
Best flight ever
In March of 1969 I was "stranded" at Hickam Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaii and trying to catch any milair propliner or jet to anywhere on the U.S. mainland. I struck up a conversation with one of the USAF flight operations guys (I was a USMC C-117 & C-130 crew chief). Long story made short - about an hour later I was the only pax on a Braniff military charter on a deadhead back to the States. Three flying crew up front and 4 F/A's (stewardesses at the time) in the cabin. One year later - I was married - to the best looking Texan flight attendant working for Braniff - I met her on that flight...! p.s. She's now retired from American Airlines.
Many moons ago Panam and Branniff(first to have leather sets ) flew to S America.
One Branniff flight Miami = Manaus had four passengers and FA's sat down back smoking pot as "did not give them a headache". Onward flights to Rio from Manaus usually had ten or so pax great fun playing samba tapes and dancing in the aisles.
Panam to Moscow carried very few pax due to 'cold war' and visa difficulties.
Fergus Kelly ,the then Dir. of passenger services, informed me that PAA had to fly routes empty just to satisfy the US admins request to fly the flag. However PAA did not even get postal reductions back in return !!
PS Panam in those days flew the 707 a great old lady of the skies.
PAA in the early days also built most of runways in Brazil.
This boring old fart has many stories of yesteryear to relate.
One Branniff flight Miami = Manaus had four passengers and FA's sat down back smoking pot as "did not give them a headache". Onward flights to Rio from Manaus usually had ten or so pax great fun playing samba tapes and dancing in the aisles.
Panam to Moscow carried very few pax due to 'cold war' and visa difficulties.
Fergus Kelly ,the then Dir. of passenger services, informed me that PAA had to fly routes empty just to satisfy the US admins request to fly the flag. However PAA did not even get postal reductions back in return !!
PS Panam in those days flew the 707 a great old lady of the skies.
PAA in the early days also built most of runways in Brazil.
This boring old fart has many stories of yesteryear to relate.
Welcome to Luchtzak, Junkers52.
Your PanAm story also reminded me a JFK-WAW flight on the same company's A310, also before the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was only a handful of passengers, and I was the only one in business class. I got royal service, but none of the stewardesses smoke pot
Your PanAm story also reminded me a JFK-WAW flight on the same company's A310, also before the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was only a handful of passengers, and I was the only one in business class. I got royal service, but none of the stewardesses smoke pot
André
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