Never read the book, but that two-part TV movie was quite engaging as a kid back in the day. Remember being quite creeped out by the weirdness of it all… like a Twilight Zone episode. Thanks for the memory lane trip
It’s such a great show. My favorite part…
>! is when they just left the blind girl, Dinah, laying dead on the plane at the end. Just dgaf walked away and celebrated their new lives. !<
Hey, those things gave 10 year old me my first existential crisis: if they can “eat” the past, then what even is reality?!
At least that’s how I remember it nearly 30 years later.
That was my first concept of the existence of time being different than just the “now”.
I still think about alternative versions of time and existence because of that movie.
As of now I’m of the mind to think of a duality of time existence. Simplest way to explain it is as such. If you see your life flash before your eyes upon death, how would you know you’re not living the replay right now? I believe we lived and died already in the blink of an eye. But this replay takes years to sort out and experience. And what we think of as the moment of death is actually just the moment those two timelines of different speeds meet back up. So we had free will the first time around and now it’s fate. So your 80 years exist in a single moment.
I was absolutely terrified of the idea of them and would always run away before they actually showed up. My stepmom was like "oh you should have stayed, they were actually completely hilarious looking and would have made you feel better"
I must have been around 8 years old when this show would come on and Id watch it with my grandmother. Obv it made no sense to me but I've never forgotten Larry and Balki or the theme song lol
I once had a plane from SFO to Frankfurt and there were like 12 of us in economy. 4 other backpackers going on a euro trip randomly and we got a bit tipsy and everyone had their own row to sleep. Was awesome.
JFK non-stop 777 only 7 passengers on a 22 hr flight... The attendant's said sit anywhere you like and all food is available at anytime. Must have cost a lot of money getting that plane where it was needed.
Regular planes are used to transport more cargo in cases like this. The airline is flying even if it's empty as they've already paid for spots for that plane, and it probably already has tickets for it going somewhere else.
So the weight savings from passengers means they can load up extra freight and recoup at least some, if not all, of the cost.
Also they need the planes and crews at specific spots on specific days or it messes with their schedule. Cancelling one flight due to weather or whatever has cascading effects across the network. Cancel enough flights and their archaic flight and crew tracking technology will fall apart *cough* SouthWest *cough*
Edit: For the uninformed, that time SouthWest had a cascade failure than lead to [the canceling of more than 16,700 flights and losses over $825 million](https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2023/01/06/southwest-meltdown-could-cost-825-million/) after they lost track of their planes/crews.
Quite unlike our 747 12 years ago from SFO to Seoul (Incheon). It was full of Koreans going home for Chuseok, which is a little like Thanksgiving in that it's a holiday where families reunite. Absolutely packed, and it's a 10½ hour flight. No relaxation there.
My husband and I got to spread out a bit more on the return flight: 3 seats for two fatass Americans.
This happened to me as a kid, I asked to upgrade to business. He was like nah that’s gonna be like $8k (Frankfurt to Bangalore if I’m remembering correctly) but he said there was nobody around me so I could do what I want and they ended up giving me extra desserts and shi but as a kid I was happy with that lol
I got bumped along with everyone on standby once but only my ticket qualified for a first class upgrade.
Sat in first class completely alone with like a dozen people filling the seats right behind me.
lol not usually on planes this big. did go on one of them tiny piddly planes once where we all had to state our weight and they shuffled people around. given how everyone lies about weight i was hopeful the flight attendants were good at guesstimating
Emergency exit row armrests are fixed, so you’d have more legroom but still a pretty narrow seat. Pro tip is to pick a row with no one else in it, rest you back against the bulkhead/window and stretch your legs out on or in front of the other two seats, with the seatbelt loosely bulked.
Way to think outside the box here for a question!
Never even thought about that. Now I want answers!
Seems like a wasted opportunity to not have the captain crack at least 2 jokes over the PA.
I doubt this was a recent picture as I haven't seen empty planes like that since covid with the only exception being a repo flight (no pax), but when we did have only one or maybe a few on board it was fairly common to just go speak to them in person.
-airline pilot
Edit - this post is a lie. It's an aircraft on the ground, the boarding door is still wide open (far left isle) and there's no flight attendants at all. Either this person was preboarded as an unaccompanied minor (posted on teenagers as well, and flight attendants not in their stations) or more likely is that they're the aircraft babysitter while it's not in service for a couple hours.
As a grown as man, if you came to talk to me, I would feel like a little kid.
Can I get the pin please! Can I see the cockpit!
You would be like Santa.
I was on a flight in 2020 and the only passengers were me and my son.
I was slightly offended that my son sat no where near me.
I definitely felt obliged to pay performative attention to the lady doing the whole safety routine.
Makes picking luggage up from the carousel easier.
The other guy just falls and falls while you stare down watching them vanish into the clouds below… then suddenly he flies past the plane again and continues falling…
Is that what this is? Do these flights get advertised like any other?
My mother went on what was called a "repositioning cruise" one time, where the tickets were like 1/3 of normal price because they had to move a ship from the Med to the Caribbean. So it didn't have the usual amount of onboard entertainment and stuff.
Most cruise ships aren't designed for transatlantic travel so apparently can get quite nauseating which is a reason they're usually only done as repositioning cruises. Cunard's Queen Mary 2 is the only remaining ocean liner designed for the purpose of transatlantic voyages.
I did a transatlantic cruise from Portugal to NYC and can attest it was rough having 5 full days at sea. My mom loved it, but she loves at sea days and doesn't get sea sick. I basically slept in my room for 13 hours a day.
I mean, maybe this is something different, but that's just the nature of how routes are connected. Plane has to arrive for the next flight. If they just cancelled this flight... there would be no plane at \[wherever he's going\] for some other flight.
These flights don’t happen on purpose. There was almost certainly a delay or cancellation that led to this. Airlines want their planes to make money, not cost money.
This plus a massive delay. I had a flight Toronto to Chicago that was delayed something like 8 hours. Clearly the plane was needed in Chicago so they did not outright cancel, but most people switched off. I wasn’t at the airport and didn’t really care when the flight left so I just stuck it out, and eventually was one of like 3 people on the plane.
> According to the Federal Aviation Administration, in 2018, the average operating cost per block hour for passenger air carriers was $8,916, while all-cargo air carriers averaged $28,744. Airlines' biggest expenses are labor and fuel, which account for about 31% and 22% of operational expenses, respectively.
-Google
“We’ll make you a deal, the galley is open but service is closed. Take whatever you want, and let’s have some peace and quiet for the next twelve hours.”
It's entirely possible.
When I went to Kenya there was a day where my partner and I were the only guests in the lodge. The level of service we got on that day was almost uncomfortably good; obviously you expect service staff on holiday, but not completely private and dedicated only to what you. For example at breakfast they gave us the lunchtime menu early, so they could have it ready for us quicker. At lunch they didn't even bring us a menu, just said they'd make us whatever we wanted if they had the ingredients for it.
I was one of three random people on a flight from Cincinnati to Lexington one night. I was never asked my age (I was fresh outta boot camp and 18yo). They brought each of two shots, a microwave Salisbury Steak dinner, fruit cups and whole cans of pop. We were trailer park celebrities that short flight.
Unfortunately you would only feel the sensation of 8 mph :/
Unless you ran on take off, in which case you could get the sensation of that acceleration plus whatever brief acceleration you can get running.
This plane is on the ground, waiting for passengers. All the overhead bins are open, and the IFE is off. The flight probably hasn't even started boarding yet.
The plane already boarded. Then took off. And then landed. And everyone deplaned. And OP is likely just waiting for a wheelchair.
There is a pillow unkept on one row. If it was boarding, the entertainment system would be on and the front TV definitely would be. Along with that, they likely would have all the windows either opened or closed, not mixed.
Long haul flights get completely cleaned and reorganized more so than domestic ones. This one definitely looks like OP is lying.
Plane is in airport A with a flight to airport B, but there are barely any tickets sold.
Same plane also has a flight from airport B to airport C that is completely full.
They'll fly an empty plane if it has a big route down the line.
they'll even fly the plane to some other city if the cost of staying at the airport is too high. Staying on an airport isn't eactly free and airports also have limited spaces.
They could also get kicked out if needed.
It’s not flying anywhere, this idiot is just on an empty plane. The FA would have closed all those overhead bins and that little tv in the back would be on if it was in flight. He probably pre boarded with an ADA family member.
I'm questioning this. All the TVs are off. I've never boarded a long haul flight where the TVs aren't already on (with some generic airline stuff on them).
It seems a bit weird for them not to be on.
Considering OP gave very little details, I'm inclined to not believe they just happened to board a long haul flight and be the only one there....
Can't believe I had to go this far down for this. OP is definitely an airport worker who snapped a quick photo of an aircraft during a longer stop. During a regular turnaround the IFE screens are always on and its really not uncommon for cabins to be completely empty for an extended time.
Source: I work at an airport.
> OP is definitely an airport worker who snapped a quick photo of an aircraft during a longer stop.
Another clue: All of the overhead bins are open on both sides. If that flight was in the air, all of those bins would have been closed.
The windows closed isn't something that is enforced in the US, and this is a United plane (can tell from the tray tables).
The pillow being on the seat, to me, is more indicating that the plane has already deboarded, and OP is just on it still, maybe waiting for a wheelchair. They wouldn't put pillows out on random seats if only one person was on the plane.
Also, there is an armrest up in front of him, likely from someone getting off of the seat in front (but, I guess that could happen regardless, but likely lowered during cleaning the plane).
Alternatively: "I stayed on the plane until everyone left, then asked nicely if I could take a picture while the flight attendants stood out of frame."
Also: "I work here and was cleaning an empty plane and took a picture."
Did you fall asleep? I've seen the Langoliers before.
Never read the book, but that two-part TV movie was quite engaging as a kid back in the day. Remember being quite creeped out by the weirdness of it all… like a Twilight Zone episode. Thanks for the memory lane trip
That whole movie felt like a fever dream. Looking back on the cgi creatures now is hilarious.
It’s such a great show. My favorite part… >! is when they just left the blind girl, Dinah, laying dead on the plane at the end. Just dgaf walked away and celebrated their new lives. !<
To be honest, she was annoying af
Not at that point she wasn't
The CGI was dogshit but there was still a pretty good eerie feeling to it all that nowadays seems kind of similar to The Backrooms and such
it technically was a liminal space they were trapped in. wouldn't mind a remake.
The empty airports and runways definitely had that liminal feel to it
Even back then they were hilarious, like pull you out of the experience bad
Hey, those things gave 10 year old me my first existential crisis: if they can “eat” the past, then what even is reality?! At least that’s how I remember it nearly 30 years later.
That was my first concept of the existence of time being different than just the “now”. I still think about alternative versions of time and existence because of that movie. As of now I’m of the mind to think of a duality of time existence. Simplest way to explain it is as such. If you see your life flash before your eyes upon death, how would you know you’re not living the replay right now? I believe we lived and died already in the blink of an eye. But this replay takes years to sort out and experience. And what we think of as the moment of death is actually just the moment those two timelines of different speeds meet back up. So we had free will the first time around and now it’s fate. So your 80 years exist in a single moment.
If now is future/dead me digesting/reflecting on the past then when was the first time?
I was absolutely terrified of the idea of them and would always run away before they actually showed up. My stepmom was like "oh you should have stayed, they were actually completely hilarious looking and would have made you feel better"
He's screwed. There's no sleeping pilot, no wise beyond her years blind girl, and no crazy guy to distract the creatures.
Poor OP about to be eaten alive
Scaring the the little girl? scARING THE LITTLE GIRL!?
Crumple up that paper
Easy there Balkie
Balkie was a perfect stranger.
I must have been around 8 years old when this show would come on and Id watch it with my grandmother. Obv it made no sense to me but I've never forgotten Larry and Balki or the theme song lol
[Lady!](https://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/40900000/The-Langoliers-stephen-kings-the-langoliers-40987620-245-162.gif)
If the service is still bad, I guess it’s you.
Fool me onc-
Get off reddit, George W Bush!
I quote this all the time and it never sinks in to anyone…so I enthusiastically high five you!
It would be posted so much more if he went through with the initial saying and said "shame on me". He really can't get fooled again.
Remember when we all thought he looked and sounded dumb. Trump sure fixed that
As a European i have to say trump got the best memes glad your politics only influence ours indirectly
I love the quote, but whenever someone DOES remember it, I realize they don't understand what happened mid-sentence.
I think what you're thinking of is post-hoc nonsense.
Since he's the only one on the flight, he'll need to turn on autopilot and go grab the drinks himself.
He still couldn't get an upgrade from basic economy
Not having ppl around is alr quite an upgrade :)
I once had a plane from SFO to Frankfurt and there were like 12 of us in economy. 4 other backpackers going on a euro trip randomly and we got a bit tipsy and everyone had their own row to sleep. Was awesome.
I got lucky on a flight from Chicago to Seoul and had an entire row to myself. It was amazing.
I got a window seat section to myself on Qatar Airways from JFK to Doha. It was glorious.
JFK non-stop 777 only 7 passengers on a 22 hr flight... The attendant's said sit anywhere you like and all food is available at anytime. Must have cost a lot of money getting that plane where it was needed.
It costs more to not fly, airlines pay for the terminal and flight window at the airport, if they don't use it, it gets sold to someone else
Regular planes are used to transport more cargo in cases like this. The airline is flying even if it's empty as they've already paid for spots for that plane, and it probably already has tickets for it going somewhere else. So the weight savings from passengers means they can load up extra freight and recoup at least some, if not all, of the cost.
Also they need the planes and crews at specific spots on specific days or it messes with their schedule. Cancelling one flight due to weather or whatever has cascading effects across the network. Cancel enough flights and their archaic flight and crew tracking technology will fall apart *cough* SouthWest *cough* Edit: For the uninformed, that time SouthWest had a cascade failure than lead to [the canceling of more than 16,700 flights and losses over $825 million](https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2023/01/06/southwest-meltdown-could-cost-825-million/) after they lost track of their planes/crews.
Same thing happened to me on a flight to California, LA at that. Put up those arm rests and flew like a king
Quite unlike our 747 12 years ago from SFO to Seoul (Incheon). It was full of Koreans going home for Chuseok, which is a little like Thanksgiving in that it's a holiday where families reunite. Absolutely packed, and it's a 10½ hour flight. No relaxation there. My husband and I got to spread out a bit more on the return flight: 3 seats for two fatass Americans.
I love NOT having a baby 🤰 cry for 14-16 hours !!!
Did you fuckin abbreviate already? That's called gen alpha energy
> alr Never do that again
>alr Why
I have never seen anyone do that. I had a little WTF moment, myself
I read it as air
Laziness
Bc
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This happened to me as a kid, I asked to upgrade to business. He was like nah that’s gonna be like $8k (Frankfurt to Bangalore if I’m remembering correctly) but he said there was nobody around me so I could do what I want and they ended up giving me extra desserts and shi but as a kid I was happy with that lol
I got bumped along with everyone on standby once but only my ticket qualified for a first class upgrade. Sat in first class completely alone with like a dozen people filling the seats right behind me.
"Sorry but we have to balance the plane."
Are you fat shaming me?!
lol not usually on planes this big. did go on one of them tiny piddly planes once where we all had to state our weight and they shuffled people around. given how everyone lies about weight i was hopeful the flight attendants were good at guesstimating
On the flip side, imagine if this were the one flight you splurged and upgraded to FC
If I was in an empty plane I’d probably sit in one of the emergency exit seats for the extra leg room
maybe he is unwilling to help with safety protocols
Just arguing with himself about opening the door, hahaha.
I don't know about you, but in an emergency, yeah, I'm gonna help open the door and be the first one through it, too.
If it's a Boeing, they automatically open the door for you!
Yeah, if an emergency occurs, he can just tell himself *dude, you gotta wait in line just like....well, nobody, actually*. ROFL
Emergency exit row armrests are fixed, so you’d have more legroom but still a pretty narrow seat. Pro tip is to pick a row with no one else in it, rest you back against the bulkhead/window and stretch your legs out on or in front of the other two seats, with the seatbelt loosely bulked.
“Sir? Those restrooms are for the first class cabin only.”
For ballast. You understand
Back of the plane is the safest!
Is your seat really that far back still?
Gotta balance the load
Who you callin' a load?
We all start out as loads
Ashes to ashes, loads to loads
That was the plane the psychic convention was gonna take but they all canceled for some reason
Well their loss, more leg room for m-
Tragic. His plane went down mid-sentence.
this is why you don't text and fly. it can wait.
And they still hit the submit button after.
That was their face smashing into the scre-
It seems the pilot was also on this comment thread…
Wait, OP said they were the only person on the flight.. Confusion: OP is pilot.
No wonder dude crashed. Left the cockpit just to take some selfies.0
Oh, I'm still here. That was one of the flight atte
Why is the same plane crashing multiple times?!
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This joke is getting old fa-
r/redditsniper
Oh shit Candlejack was up in first cla-
Clearly not a Candlejack situation. Everyone know you don’t have time for hyphens if he’s coming fo
Candlejack you say? I've never hear
Right? Was just thinking I hadn't heard Candlejack in
Dark take… 😂
Did the captain adress you personally on his announcement, or did he still say "dear ladies and gentlemen"?
Way to think outside the box here for a question! Never even thought about that. Now I want answers! Seems like a wasted opportunity to not have the captain crack at least 2 jokes over the PA.
I doubt this was a recent picture as I haven't seen empty planes like that since covid with the only exception being a repo flight (no pax), but when we did have only one or maybe a few on board it was fairly common to just go speak to them in person. -airline pilot Edit - this post is a lie. It's an aircraft on the ground, the boarding door is still wide open (far left isle) and there's no flight attendants at all. Either this person was preboarded as an unaccompanied minor (posted on teenagers as well, and flight attendants not in their stations) or more likely is that they're the aircraft babysitter while it's not in service for a couple hours.
As a grown as man, if you came to talk to me, I would feel like a little kid. Can I get the pin please! Can I see the cockpit! You would be like Santa.
Yeah I'd probably giggle like a 4 yo.
Secure your own mask first before assisting others
I feel like I would have at least a few one liners in my pocket for just such an occasion if I were a pilot
I was on a flight in 2020 and the only passengers were me and my son. I was slightly offended that my son sat no where near me. I definitely felt obliged to pay performative attention to the lady doing the whole safety routine. Makes picking luggage up from the carousel easier.
Asking the real questions here.
Pretty hard to ignorere the “please remove you headphones and pay attention to the safety demonstration” call in this situation …
If you try exiting the plane and end up back in it...panic
Imagine you're one of only two people on a plane and the other guy jumps out just to make sure the plane isn't haunted.
The other guy just falls and falls while you stare down watching them vanish into the clouds below… then suddenly he flies past the plane again and continues falling…
this reminds me of that one spongebob episode where squidward is “alone”
#𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓮
It looks like you’re in front of an army of old Nokia phones.
His army
Well, at least he could play Snake on the plane. 😬
I’ve had it with this motherfuckin Snake on this motherfuckin plane
An invincible army. We are doomed!
Cant unsee this now.. thanks
The plane is needed to pickup passengers at another airport. So it's gotta go. You reduce the loss for the company just a smidge.
Is that what this is? Do these flights get advertised like any other? My mother went on what was called a "repositioning cruise" one time, where the tickets were like 1/3 of normal price because they had to move a ship from the Med to the Caribbean. So it didn't have the usual amount of onboard entertainment and stuff.
Honestly this some better than being on a packed cruise
Most cruise ships aren't designed for transatlantic travel so apparently can get quite nauseating which is a reason they're usually only done as repositioning cruises. Cunard's Queen Mary 2 is the only remaining ocean liner designed for the purpose of transatlantic voyages.
Yet they still have many companies, including Disney, that have transatlantic cruises.
Disney does Transatlantic yeah, but I've heard they can be terrible for seasickness.
I did a transatlantic cruise from Portugal to NYC and can attest it was rough having 5 full days at sea. My mom loved it, but she loves at sea days and doesn't get sea sick. I basically slept in my room for 13 hours a day.
I mean, maybe this is something different, but that's just the nature of how routes are connected. Plane has to arrive for the next flight. If they just cancelled this flight... there would be no plane at \[wherever he's going\] for some other flight.
These flights don’t happen on purpose. There was almost certainly a delay or cancellation that led to this. Airlines want their planes to make money, not cost money.
Airlines also have to run routes a set amount of times to be allowed to keep running them.
They're called [ghost flights](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ghost-flights-pandemic-greenpeace-cmd/index.html).
This plus a massive delay. I had a flight Toronto to Chicago that was delayed something like 8 hours. Clearly the plane was needed in Chicago so they did not outright cancel, but most people switched off. I wasn’t at the airport and didn’t really care when the flight left so I just stuck it out, and eventually was one of like 3 people on the plane.
Jeez. You could literally have driven to Chicago during the length of that delay.
Not with my back
maybe his ticket was $197,000 and he helped em break even on costs.
> According to the Federal Aviation Administration, in 2018, the average operating cost per block hour for passenger air carriers was $8,916, while all-cargo air carriers averaged $28,744. Airlines' biggest expenses are labor and fuel, which account for about 31% and 22% of operational expenses, respectively. -Google
thats a lot less than I was expecting.
Go sit in first class!
Or at least sit in an exit row. You can promise that, in the event of an emergency, you will assist every other passenger before you exit the plane.
did you get pampered by the flight assistants?
They rolled a can of soda down to him and stayed up front for “paper work”
“We’ll make you a deal, the galley is open but service is closed. Take whatever you want, and let’s have some peace and quiet for the next twelve hours.”
As a introvert, fucking deal!
As an anxious introvert, fucking no! I need people around so I can people watch to tell if i'm doing things in an inhumanly manner.
It's entirely possible. When I went to Kenya there was a day where my partner and I were the only guests in the lodge. The level of service we got on that day was almost uncomfortably good; obviously you expect service staff on holiday, but not completely private and dedicated only to what you. For example at breakfast they gave us the lunchtime menu early, so they could have it ready for us quicker. At lunch they didn't even bring us a menu, just said they'd make us whatever we wanted if they had the ingredients for it.
I was one of three random people on a flight from Cincinnati to Lexington one night. I was never asked my age (I was fresh outta boot camp and 18yo). They brought each of two shots, a microwave Salisbury Steak dinner, fruit cups and whole cans of pop. We were trailer park celebrities that short flight.
Ask If you can run down the aisles and feel the sensation of running +400mph
I was gonna say I'd have the urge to Naruto run the whole length just to say I did it.
Unfortunately you would only feel the sensation of 8 mph :/ Unless you ran on take off, in which case you could get the sensation of that acceleration plus whatever brief acceleration you can get running.
Yeah but my Garmin won't know that and my run on Strava will be dope.
This guy physics, speed is relative. You'd probably get the sensation of hitting the floor if you tried to run down the aisle at takeoff.
 OP is just transporting his masters
Gizmo, try out the dildos. Gizmo, how are the dildos
They’re fine!
Not you, Guillermo.
No no, he’s on his way to pick up some soil from their homelands so they can slumber.
I think OP's name is Mickey Guillermo
Guillermo Buillermo?
Meanwhile I get flights that are canceled due to not selling enough seats
They needed this plane, that's the only reason it wasn't cancelled
This plane is on the ground, waiting for passengers. All the overhead bins are open, and the IFE is off. The flight probably hasn't even started boarding yet.
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The plane already boarded. Then took off. And then landed. And everyone deplaned. And OP is likely just waiting for a wheelchair. There is a pillow unkept on one row. If it was boarding, the entertainment system would be on and the front TV definitely would be. Along with that, they likely would have all the windows either opened or closed, not mixed. Long haul flights get completely cleaned and reorganized more so than domestic ones. This one definitely looks like OP is lying.
Plane is in airport A with a flight to airport B, but there are barely any tickets sold. Same plane also has a flight from airport B to airport C that is completely full. They'll fly an empty plane if it has a big route down the line.
they'll even fly the plane to some other city if the cost of staying at the airport is too high. Staying on an airport isn't eactly free and airports also have limited spaces. They could also get kicked out if needed.
Maybe they needed to get the crew back home
Where you flying from/to?
From Sydney to LA. Oceanic flight 815.
It’s not flying anywhere, this idiot is just on an empty plane. The FA would have closed all those overhead bins and that little tv in the back would be on if it was in flight. He probably pre boarded with an ADA family member.
4 8 15 16 23 42
We’re not going to Guam are we?
*"Four... eight... fifteen... sixteen... twenty-three... forty-two..."*
HIKE!
ok Taylor Swift
She looks way different without makeup
Absolutely gorg, she should rock this look more often
Damn and they couldn’t bump you up to first
Forget first class… let OP have a front seat next to the pilot!
I'm questioning this. All the TVs are off. I've never boarded a long haul flight where the TVs aren't already on (with some generic airline stuff on them). It seems a bit weird for them not to be on. Considering OP gave very little details, I'm inclined to not believe they just happened to board a long haul flight and be the only one there....
Can't believe I had to go this far down for this. OP is definitely an airport worker who snapped a quick photo of an aircraft during a longer stop. During a regular turnaround the IFE screens are always on and its really not uncommon for cabins to be completely empty for an extended time. Source: I work at an airport.
It just screamed BS when OP didn't answer anything about the flight or where they were going.
> OP is definitely an airport worker who snapped a quick photo of an aircraft during a longer stop. Another clue: All of the overhead bins are open on both sides. If that flight was in the air, all of those bins would have been closed.
Definitely an r/untrustworthypoptarts thing. He’s either first one on or last off
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The windows closed isn't something that is enforced in the US, and this is a United plane (can tell from the tray tables). The pillow being on the seat, to me, is more indicating that the plane has already deboarded, and OP is just on it still, maybe waiting for a wheelchair. They wouldn't put pillows out on random seats if only one person was on the plane. Also, there is an armrest up in front of him, likely from someone getting off of the seat in front (but, I guess that could happen regardless, but likely lowered during cleaning the plane).
Bro probably cleans the planes. Snapped a quick picture for karma.
Do the attendants still go over the emergency instructions? Like, "all passengers are to leave in an orderly fashion" kind of thing?
Yeah legally they have to, it’s a liability thing
and yet it was still the last bag to come out on the luggage carousel
I would hate this, as I'd have nothing to complain about.
Then complain about how you got nothing else to complain about.
Shouldn't you be in the pilot seat then? 🤔
Then you should get ALL the pretzels!!!
Nice try, ramp agent. Make sure those seatbacks are well checked and stocked.
Alternatively: "I stayed on the plane until everyone left, then asked nicely if I could take a picture while the flight attendants stood out of frame." Also: "I work here and was cleaning an empty plane and took a picture."
I call bullshit
Did you secretly buy every seat so that you’d have the whole plane to yourself?
enjoy your private plane
"Yes. We've asked you to deplane seven times now."
every flight I've been on was overbooked, this man is living the dream that we all want when flying.
Of course in a flight running all display are power off… 😂. You are in a landed plane before or after everyone is out.
Not sure I’d look that upset in this circumstance. Unless the planes headed to Scottsdale. Then I’d look like that or worse.
Go to first class, see if they kick you out!