ATLANTA — A man had a unique experience on a Delta flight Tuesday. He was the only passenger on the plane.
Steven Schneider, of Lawrenceville, Georgia, told WSB-TV he arrived at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport and saw no passengers waiting at his gate.
While he was at the gate, a Delta flight attendant asked him if he would like to go home the next day since he would be the only passenger on the flight.
Other passengers were scheduled to be on flight 2426 but decided to take other flights or return the next day because the flight had been delayed a couple of times.
Schneider opted to keep his original reservation, so he had the entire flight to himself.
“At first I felt really bad, because I didn’t want the plane to only make the trip because of me,” he told WSB-TV. “But after talking to a flight attendant at the gate, she said the plane needed to go back to Atlanta anyway. She called this an empty leg flight.”
The flight attendant told him she’d never seen something like this in 17 years, he said.
Delta issued the following statement:
“We’re glad this customer enjoyed a somewhat rare solo experience. Other customers were accommodated on an earlier departure. The reason we operated the flight was so this customer could have that airplane positioned back in Atlanta so it could be in place for a departure the next day.”
