Man boards flight to Italy only to discover he’s the ONLY passenger on board
The lucky passenger was the only customer on the 188-seat plane
INSTEAD of enduring the cramped conditions in economy, one man got the private jet experience when he had an entire flight to himself.
Lucky Skirmantas Strimaitis boarded the plane from Lithuanian capital Vilnius to Bergamo in Italy only to discover he was the only passenger aboard.
He described his solo-flight as a "once in a lifetime experience".
The Boeing 737-800 has 188 seats but only Skimantas's one was taken.
Two pilots and five cabin crew members were the only other people on the plane.
The situation arose when travel agency Novaturas chartered a flight to fly a group home from Italy to Lithuania on March 16.
To avoid flying the plane back empty, it offered one-way tickets back to Bergamo but only one was sold.
Skirmantas treated himself to a skiing trip to the city, which is in the north of Italy.
Getting the entire plane to yourself is extremely rare but it does happen to a few very lucky people.
Last year a woman from flew from Rochester, New York, to Ronald Reagan International Airport in Washington, DC and had the entire flight to herself.
Beth VerSteeg was the only passenger on her one-hour flight, which was supposed to be used solely for moving airline crew.
The same happy accident happened to a British woman the year before on a Jet2 flight from Glasgow to Crete.
Karon Grieve from Ayrshire paid £46 for a ticket and had the whole 189-seater plane to herself.
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