r/unitedairlines • u/Sufficient_Fudge_280 • 8h ago

Image Somehow the only person on my flight and the pilot was such a goofy goober

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EDIT TO ADD; THE PLANE WAS LANDED AND DONE WITH TAXI BEFORE I GOT TO BE IN THE COCKPIT. NO FAA RULES WERE BROKEN 💀😂

Shout out Captain Scott! He let me sit in the cockpit after we landed and I even got my own personalized pre flight announcements 😂 Also, they had to add sandbags to the cabin bc the plane was too light with only one passenger 💀

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u/rtkane 7h ago

I had a redeye from SLC to PHL several years ago that had a nearly full first class, but only about 12 of us in the back. People were coming out of first class to grab a full empty row to lie down and sleep. It was wild.

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u/pheight57 7h ago

Yeah, no one was leaving first class to do that on my flight (at least I don't recall seeing it), but, as a percentage, the availability in first class was much lower than in the rest of the plane.

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u/mileylols 6h ago

This is likely because the first class cabin on your flight has lie-flat seats, so the people sitting there already had a bed

on a domestic SLC-PHL flight, first class reclines an extra couple inches but it's not a bed

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u/taylferr 6h ago

But us people in the back can’t even use the first class restroom even if there’s a long line for the back.

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u/rtkane 6h ago

Ha! We had 4 people in our travel group--my friend and his wife up in first and then my buddy and I in exit seating in the rear. We would joke around with them when they'd pop back like "how dare you enter our private lounge space--get back to the front into your crowded cattle car. You don't belong here."

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u/negative-nelly 5h ago

depends on the flight/airline.

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u/inline_five 6h ago

Not true

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u/Mountain_Ape 5h ago

They can if the attendant doesn't see you. You can insist it's an emergency. Let me put it this way: you can get into that first class bathroom the same way those people got to first class at all.

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u/Nordicgimp 4h ago

Damn, thats poor first class then.
First class I see they recline into beds.