Lucky man gets whole plane to himself while travelling to ski holiday

A Lithuanian man flying to Italy got a pleasant surprise when he boarded a plane – he was the only passenger on the Boeing 737-800.

Skirmantas Strimaitis, who was flying from capital Vilnius to the northern Italian city of Bergamo for a skiing holiday on March 16, had the whole plane — which can usually sit up to 188 people — to himself.

The only others on board were two pilots and five crew members.

The Novaturas travel agency said it had chartered the plane to fly a group home to Lithuania from Italy and to avoid flying empty on the way back, one-way tickets went on sale.

Only one person bought one.

Mr Strimaitis told AP on Tuesday (local time) the flight, which lasted more than two hours, was “a once in the lifetime experience”.

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