The strange journey of the only passenger aboard a Boeing 737 bound for Italy

A Lithuanian had a big surprise when boarding his plane for Italy: he was the only pbadenger aboard the Boeing 737-800.

Skirmantas Strimaitis, who traveled from the Lithuanian capital Vilna to the Italian city of Bergamo on March 16 to ski, had all the air for him. The plane has a quota of up to 188 pbadengers. The only other people on board were two pilots and five crew members.

The travel agency Novaturas He said he had booked the plane to repatriate a group of people from Italy and to prevent the plane from being empty, one way tickets were sold. Only one person bought one of these tickets.

Strimaitis said Tuesday that the trip of more than two hours was "Something that happens only once in a lifetime."

However, he is not the only person to whom this has happened recently. Last July, Saad Jilani, 28, He traveled alone on a flight from Corfu, Greece, to Birmingham, England.

When he got on the plane that was taking him home after a wedding, Jilani was greeted by the staff who told him: "Welcome aboard your private jet, sir"During his trip, he photographed the hostesses doing a synchronized safety demonstration before taking a selfie with them.

"The staff was amazing and I was very happy to be the only person in the plane with them. Although it was just them and me, they were professionals, but we laughed and joked and it was great, "he said. The sun. "It's a new way they're going, so many people would not have known it yet."

The American Latsamy McAdoo was in the same situation last January in Thailand. He was surprised to see a member of the cabin crew shut the doors while he had just boarded the A319.it would take Bangkok to Koh Samui Island.

"At first, it was exciting and fun. They let me run in the halls dancing alone. But then, the plane started to jump, really a lot of jumps. I started worrying myself. Fortunately, the pilot was able to land on the island with relative ease, "he wrote in a post on Instagram.