Perks of an 18-hour flight delay

As reported on the Daily Dot website:

An American Airlines passenger’s patience was rewarded after he endured an 18-hour delay in order to board his flight. He had the entire plane to himself.

According to a viral video posted to TikTok today by user Phil Stringer (@phil.stringer), a full crew was assigned to his flight despite him being the only passenger boarding at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

“I figured they would just cancel the flight after it kept getting delayed over and over, but they didn’t cancel it,” Stringer said. “I asked if there were other options, but the only options would have me leaving the airport the next morning and I had to get home.”

He sat at the airport Starbucks and worked the entire day, returning to his gate 18 hours later to discover that he was the only passenger waiting to board.

“When you buy every single ticket on the plane so you don’t have to deal with people,” Stringer jokingly wrote in his video’s text overlay, showing rows of empty seats inside the plane. Only one bag was loaded onto the plane, according to a baggage handler shown in the video.