Business Class All To Themselves: They Met And Decided To Have Dinner. It Began With Champagne… – View from the Wing

Two passengers found themselves with the entire Philippine Airlines business class cabin to themselves. The young man and young woman decided to have dinner together on the plane. He moved over to her side of the aircraft. They began with champagne…

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I’ve flown alone in first class many times, such as Singapore Airlines from Singapore to Paris, Thai Airways from Bangkok to Tokyo, Korean Air from Seoul to Singapore and ANA from Chicago to Tokyo. But I’ve never had an entire aircraft to myself.

In the late 80s I flew New York to Cincinnati on Delta with just two or three other passengers after a series of delays. And then my January 1, 2000 (“Y2K”) flight on United from Los Angeles to Washington Dulles flight was on board a a near-empty Boeing 777. Everyone else was afraid to fly that day.

But it doesn’t surprise me at all to wind up alone in Philippine Airlines business class. They’ve long had tremendous award availability.

Business class, credit: Philippine Airlines

American Airlines codeshares with Philippine Airlines but you only earn miles on codeshares and there are no redemption options. ANA suspended redemptions on Philippine Airlines between the U.S. and Manila, and Etihad no longer partners with them at all. So there’s no great ways to access this space.