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| Only three passengers on BA flight enjoy champagne and selfies | Only three passengers on BA flight enjoy champagne and selfies |
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| Three British Airways passengers had a once-in-a-lifetime flight after finding they were the only ones on board. | Three British Airways passengers had a once-in-a-lifetime flight after finding they were the only ones on board. |
| Lawrie-Lin Waller, 33, said she and her friends were upgraded to business class, treated to bottles of champagne, and posed for selfies with the captain. | Lawrie-Lin Waller, 33, said she and her friends were upgraded to business class, treated to bottles of champagne, and posed for selfies with the captain. |
| And on their trip from Gibraltar to Heathrow on 17 December, her friends Laura Stevens, 34, and Sarah Hunt, 35, enjoyed three-course meals. | |
| Ms Waller said: "We're never going to experience anything like that again." | Ms Waller said: "We're never going to experience anything like that again." |
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| She said their plane had been delayed, but when they arrived at Gibraltar airport everyone else had boarded an earlier flight. | She said their plane had been delayed, but when they arrived at Gibraltar airport everyone else had boarded an earlier flight. |
| Ms Waller, from Glasgow who is staying with her family in Witney in Oxfordshire over Christmas, said: "We were the only ones in the airport. | Ms Waller, from Glasgow who is staying with her family in Witney in Oxfordshire over Christmas, said: "We were the only ones in the airport. |
| "It was very, very quiet, some of the duty-free shops were closed. and I thought 'oh that's strange'. | "It was very, very quiet, some of the duty-free shops were closed. and I thought 'oh that's strange'. |
| "I realised the only other people were staff and we were the only people on the flight." | "I realised the only other people were staff and we were the only people on the flight." |
| She said once the three friends were on the plane the crew "found it very funny". | She said once the three friends were on the plane the crew "found it very funny". |
| She said the captain told them he had never flown a flight with just three people on it before. | She said the captain told them he had never flown a flight with just three people on it before. |
| "They made us feel absolutely fantastic," Ms Waller added. | "They made us feel absolutely fantastic," Ms Waller added. |
| "I asked, 'is it okay if we sit in business class, instead of way back at the end of the plane?' | |
| "And they said, 'yeah, sit right there in the front row' and they served us Champagne, which was lovely." | "And they said, 'yeah, sit right there in the front row' and they served us Champagne, which was lovely." |
| She said when it was time to land the pilot actually came out of the cockpit to tell them how they were going to land. | She said when it was time to land the pilot actually came out of the cockpit to tell them how they were going to land. |
| "[He said] it was going to be 'a blind landing', I think it's called, using only the radar," Ms Waller said. | "[He said] it was going to be 'a blind landing', I think it's called, using only the radar," Ms Waller said. |
| "So I said at that point, 'I think we need another bottle of Champagne'." | "So I said at that point, 'I think we need another bottle of Champagne'." |