Richard Harbus/for New York Daily News A Brooklyn man had a Delta plane to himself during a flight from Cleveland to New York. 
 
 Now that’s first class flying! 
 
 Hours of delays on a New York-bound Delta flight from Cleveland led to two passengers getting the entire plane to themselves, with one New Yorker happily live-tweeting the desolate departure. 
 
 Chris O’Leary, editor of the beer news site Brew York, tweeted a smiling selfie from the empty 76-seat plane around 2 p.m. Monday with an explanation: “They rebooked everyone but me on another flight to LGA, so I am literally the only person on this plane.” 
 
 Courtesy of Chris O'Leary Chris O'Leary took photos and used Twitter to share his experiences on the plane. 
 
 Courtesy of Chris O'Leary Chris O'Leary found himself in an empty plane after all of his fellow passengers were rebooked on an eariler Delta flight. 
 
 The thrill is gone, you guys. Just as we were about to push back, they reconnected the jet bridge to let a second passenger on the flight. 😥 — Chris O'Leary (@ohhleary) January 12, 2015 
 
 After two hours and several more tweets (“No, I'm not joking. I'm the only one on this plane.”), the Brooklyn resident tweeted this update with a crying emoji at the end: “The thrill is gone, you guys. Just as we were about to push back, they reconnected the jet bridge to let a second passenger on the flight.” 
 
 O’Leary told ABC the other passenger slept through the flight to LaGuardia and the two didn’t talk. 
 
 He explained that he left the airport for several hours due to multiple delays on his flight home, and when he returned later in the day, all of his would-be passengers were already rescheduled on an earlier flight. 
 
 Before being treated to the travel-for-two, O’Leary fired off several tweets complaining his 7:15 a.m. flight getting repeatedly rescheduled. 
 
 “I’m sure @delta’s doing all they can, but this still sucks,” he wrote three hours before the surprisingly personal plane changed his tune. 
 
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 jsilverstein@nydailynews.com ||||| After hours of delays, one New York-bound passenger thought that he was getting the private plane treatment when he boarded his flight and realized he was the only passenger. 
 
 The passenger, a Brooklyn-based man named Chris O'Leary, started tweeting about his amazement before the plane took off, saying how he got a personalized safety briefing and a one-on-one run down from the captain about the flight. 
 
 "It was definitely the most memorable flight I've been on in recent memory if only for the sheer lack of passengers to become bothersome," O'Leary told ABC News. "There were no screaming babies, no one listening to loud lyrics or reclining their seats or taking their shoes." 
 
 Although it seemed like he was getting to fly home solo, the plane ended up going back to the gate one last time to pick up a second passenger. 
 
 They rebooked everyone but me on another flight to LGA, so I am literally the only person on this plane. pic.twitter.com/ZZNPACUOfR — Chris O'Leary (@ohhleary) January 12, 2015 
 
 Just got a personal safety briefing from my two flight attendants. — Chris O'Leary (@ohhleary) January 12, 2015 
 
 They didn't end up chatting away throughout the flight, however. 
 
 "He took advantage of the fact the flight was empty and reclined his seat all the way (and slept)," O'Leary said of the second passenger. 
 
 It isn't clear how many people were originally scheduled to be on board the 76-seater regional plane, but according to O'Leary, he was the only who was not rebooked on an earlier flight after they faced a number of delays. 
 
 O'Leary was actually scheduled on a 7:15 a.m. flight out of Cleveland but when that flight got cancelled, he was re-booked on this flight, which was scheduled to take off at 9:39 a.m. 
 
 The thrill is gone, you guys. Just as we were about to push back, they reconnected the jet bridge to let a second passenger on the flight. ?? — Chris O'Leary (@ohhleary) January 12, 2015 
 
 The flight was delayed for hours, and since O'Leary learned of the delays by phone notifications, he stayed in his hotel until shortly before the flight was actually due to take off. 
 
 When he arrived at the airport, he heard his name being paged on the loud speaker and he was informed that everyone else had been rebooked on earlier flights because of the delay. 
 
 "Part of this is my own stupidity but it ended up working out in my favor," he said of the fact that he missed the pages to get on an earlier flight. 
 
 A Delta Airlines spokesman confirmed that there were two passengers on board. 
 
 Often times when planes fly with a small number of passengers it's because the plane itself is needed in the destination city for a later flight. ||||| A woman experienced the life of an A-lister for free when her flight was cancelled and she was accidentally rebooked onto a plane reserved for transporting airline crew. 
 
 Identified only as Beth, the woman posted a selfie of the empty aircraft and uploaded it to Reddit on Tuesday 2 January with the caption: “I got a whole plane to myself when I was accidentally booked on a flight just meant for moving crew.” 
 
 Beth was due to fly from Rochester, New York to Ronald Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C., at around 5pm when the flight was cancelled. 
 
 She said: “When my flight was cancelled about eight hours earlier a confused agent gave me and half the passengers a seat for the plane in the pic before another agent realized everyone could go on an earlier flight. 
 
 “They made an announcement on the speaker but I’d already left to go back to my parent’s house nearby to wait for the next few hours. I was never contacted about the flight change.” 
 
 She didn’t realise she’d be getting the private jet experience until she arrived back at the airport for the 1am flight. 
 
 “I realized something was wrong when I was the only one in the waiting area 45 minutes before take off,” Beth wrote on Reddit. 
 
 “One of the airport agents came over while I was waiting and asked if that was the flight I was waiting for then said, ‘I knew this would happen.’” 
 
 There were just three other people on board – two in the cockpit and one member of cabin crew. 
 
 Pilot films A380 take-off from Heathrow 
 
 As the flight was only an hour long, Beth said she mainly used the time to sleep and didn’t ask for any food or drink. 
 
 “It was a short flight so I didn’t ask for anything,” she said. “Maybe I would’ve gotten special treatment if I tried.” 
 
 The plane was too small for first-class, with just a row of two seats down one side and a row of single seats down the other. 
 
 The crew weren’t too happy about the situation according to Beth: “It seems the airline forced them to take me because of a mistake made by their ticketing agent. They didn’t seem thrilled about it. 
 
 “Both captains and the flight attendant said they’ve never seen this happen before.” 
 
 According to Beth the flight attendant still did the safety demonstration, albeit at “double the speed of the sound recording giving instructions,” and did offer refreshments. ||||| They were supposed to be taking a direct flight from LAX to JFK — but wound up on a 16-hour nightmare tour by air and bus of New York state. 
 
 Before finally arriving at their destination, the starving passengers of jinxed Virgin America Flight 404 had been stranded on a tarmac for seven hours and forced to ride a bus for another 2½ hours. 
 
 At one point, food supplies aboard the plane were so low that Pringles chips had to be rationed: four chips apiece, furious passengers told The Post. 
 
 “That’s all we got — four chips and half a cup of water,” said disgusted flier Justin Gordon, 23. 
 
 Flight 404 had left LA at 7:10 a.m. (PST) — 10:10 a.m. New York time — Saturday and was due to arrive at JFK at 3:30 p.m. 
 
 But because of 60-mph winds here, the plane was forced to circle JFK until it was finally diverted to Stewart Airport in Newburgh — 90 miles north — for a 5:15 p.m. landing. 
 
 There, the plane remained on the tarmac until close to midnight, passengers say. The airline said the wait was more like 4½ hours. 
 
 Either way, passengers were growing increasingly frustrated — with one woman suffering a panic attack. She was escorted off by police. The remaining cranky passengers included Carrie Ann Inaba of “Dancing with the Stars,” the CEO of a social-networking firm who made videos and Twitter posts throughout the ordeal, and three screaming babies. 
 
 The captain and flight crew seemed to be overwhelmed, too, said David Martin, CEO of Kontain.com, who posted the frequent updates online. 
 
 “One guy said he had a question, and the flight attendant started shouting at this guy, ‘You are really getting on my freaking nerves! You need to shut the hell up!’ ” Martin said. 
 
 He added, “Carrie Anne and I tried to bring cookies on the plane to the mothers with babies, and the flight attendants started snapping at us.” 
 
 The passengers’ white knight finally arrived — in the form of JetBlue. 
 
 Contacted by the Virgin America captain because JetBlue has facilities at Stewart and Virgin doesn’t, the competing airline sent over staffers, who boarded the plane. 
 
 “Ladies and gentleman, we’re here to get you off the plane,” a JetBlue employee said to cheers. 
 
 JetBlue arranged for buses to transport the passengers to Kennedy. Exhausted, the riders finally arrived at 2 a.m. — actually, 3 a.m. because of the changeover to Daylight Savings Time. 
 
 Adding insult to injury, the Virgin plane had left Stewart empty — and beat the passengers back to JFK. 
 
 After seeing Martin’s posts and videos the next day, Virgin America CEO David Cush called him and Inaba to apologize, promising a full refund and $100 credit to all passengers. 
 
 jeremy.olshan@nypost.com ||||| ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Delta Air Lines is banning for life a passenger who rudely professed his support for Republican President-elect Donald Trump and insulted those who didn’t on a flight to Pennsylvania, the company’s CEO said Monday. 
 
 Edward Bastian said in an internal memo that the airline is also refunding the cost of tickets for other passengers on the Nov. 22 flight from Atlanta to Allentown. 
 
 The (Allentown) Morning Call first reported on a video posted on Facebook by a fellow passenger on Flight 248, traveling from Atlanta to Allentown on Tuesday. The video shows the man standing in the aisle, yelling and insulting Hillary Clinton supporters. 
 
 A video posted on Facebook by a passenger shows a man standing in the aisle, yelling and insulting supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. 
 
 The man asks loudly: “We got some Hillary b**ches on here?” He proceeds to clap and yell Trump’s name a few times while other passengers seemingly try to ignore him, some staring at phones and tablets, others with arms folded. 
 
 (Below is video purporting to show more of the encounter. WARNING: Some may find the language in the video offensive.) 
 
 Didn't take long to notice that I'm back in 'Merica... Posted by Emma Baum on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 
 
 Referring to Trump’s victory, he says: “If you don’t like it, too bad.” 
 
 The Atlanta-based airline had previously apologized over the man’s outburst. 
 
 Bastian said the crew questioned the man and made the best decision they could, given the information they had, and allowed him to remain on the flight. 
 
 “However, if our colleagues had witnessed firsthand what was shown in the video, there is no question they would have removed him from the aircraft,” he wrote Monday. “He will never again be allowed on a Delta plane.” 
 
 CBS News obtained an email that Bastian sent to the company on Monday: 
 
 To: Delta Colleagues Worldwide 
 
 
 
 From: Ed Bastian 
 
 
 
 Subject: Disruptive Passenger on DL248 
 
 
 
 Thank you for the amazing job you did running our operation and taking care of our customers during the busy Thanksgiving holiday. At Delta, we strive to deliver a safe and reliable product while providing a customer experience that is second to none. You come to work every day prepared to serve our customers and to take care of each other while also dealing with the unexpected. 
 
 
 
 As you may have heard by now, last week a video began circulating around the internet showing a disruptive passenger on board a Delta flight. This individual displayed behavior that was loud, rude and disrespectful to his fellow customers. After questioning the customer, our team members made the best decision they could given the information they had and allowed him to remain on the flight. However, if our colleagues had witnessed firsthand what was shown in the video, there is no question they would have removed him from the aircraft. He will never again be allowed on a Delta plane. 
 
 
 
 Part of being a reliable travel partner and a servant leader is acknowledging our mistakes so we can learn from them and respond more effectively in the future. Delta has apologized to the customers onboard that flight. We are also refunding those customers the cost of their tickets. 
 
 
 
 I also want to make sure all of you know we have your backs. The heightened tension in our society means that now more than ever we must require civility on our planes and in our facilities. We must stay true to Delta’s core values and treat one another with dignity and respect. We also must remain committed more than ever to the safety of our customers and our crew members. We will not tolerate anything less. 
 
 
 
 Again, thank you for all you do. ||||| Video (01:38) : A man and woman caused a disruption on a Dec. 28 flight heading to Los Angeles from the Twin Cities. This video was shot by a passenger. Provided by Patrick Whalen 
 
 A defiant couple disrupted a Delta flight Wednesday evening soon after it left Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for Los Angeles, causing an upheaval that forced the airliner back to the Twin Cities. 
 
 Police led the man and woman off the plane as fellow passengers jeered, prompting the man to take a swing at one of the passengers, a witness said. 
 
 Flight 2565 left about 6:20 p.m. only to show up back at the Twin Cities airport at 7:35 p.m., said MSP spokesman Patrick Hogan. 
 
 Delta spokesman Ashton Morrow said that the couple “became aggressive and created a disruption in the cabin.” 
 
 Neither spokesman was able to say what got the man and woman riled up in the first place. A passenger who shot video of the episode said the woman wanted to use the bathroom, but became agitated after being ordered back to her seat. 
 
 Airport police identified the man as Blake A. Fleisig, 35, of Los Angeles, and the woman as Anna C. Koosmann, 36, of Edina. Court and jail records also list her as being from Los Angeles. 
 
 Left, Blake A. Fleisig. Right, Anna C. Koosmann 
 
 Koosmann was cited for disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process. Fleisig was cited for disorderly conduct. Both were booked in jail and released. Several messages were left Thursday for both Fleisig and Koosmann seeking their response to the allegations. 
 
 Once the airliner returned to the Minneapolis airport, several police officers came aboard to escort the two away, a video shot by a passenger and posted on YouTube showed. 
 
 Patrick Whalen, a concert tour staging executive who shot the 98-second video from the plane’s first row while on a business trip, said Koosmann was upset because a flight attendant told her she couldn’t use the bathroom in the flight’s first few minutes. 
 
 The flight captain twice said over the intercom that the people in back needed to return to their seats, Whalen said. 
 
 His orders ignored, the captain warned, “ ‘If you don’t sit down, we’re going to turn the flight around,’ ” Whalen said. 
 
 And sure enough, Whalen said, he could feel the plane swing around and head east back to the Twin Cities. 
 
 Passengers taunted and jeered the couple, not handcuffed at this point, as officers led them off, Whalen said. 
 
 It was amid the verbal barbs, just when it looked like the commotion in the plane had subsided, that Fleisig “punches one of the passengers,” Whalen said. 
 
 Officers took Fleisig to the floor and shouted “stay down!” along with other commands, Whalen’s video showed. 
 
 “Her boyfriend attacked somebody back there,” one passenger could be heard saying. 
 
 As Koosmann was led by police off the plane, one of the officers said, “You’re already going to jail.” 
 
 Koosmann replied, “Why? For what? For what?” 
 
 Whalen, a former Minnesotan who worked with Prince for several years and now lives in Los Angeles, said he got in his own verbal jab at Koosmann as she passed by. 
 
 “ ‘You’re going to be famous,’ ” he recalled telling her. 
 
 Applause broke out once the two were gone from the airliner, and the resumed flight reached the gate in Los Angeles about 2¼ hours late, according to flightaware.com, a flight-tracking website. ||||| It may have only begun as a demand for a humble bag of nibbles, but the threatening behaviour of one unruly passenger could have gone on to cost an airline £350,000 a court has heard. 
 
 The full cost of diverting a packed transatlantic airliner emerged as a judge heard how a plane had to make an unscheduled stop when a passenger repeatedly demanded bags of nuts. 
 
 Alarmed by the passenger’s allegedly aggressive behaviour, the pilot decided to touch down in Belfast, after first dumping 50,000 litres of aviation fuel to make the stop. 
 
 Once on the ground, the 282 passengers had to wait almost 24 hours to take off again because getting under way immediately would have broken the crew’s legal flying hours limit. Almost all the passengers had to sleep on the terminal floor. 
 
 Jeremiah Mathis Thede, from California, appeared at Coleraine Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with endangering the safety of the aircraft, disruptive behaviour on board and common assault against a stewardess. 
 
 The court heard the United Airlines plane was en route from Rome to Chicago on Saturday evening when crew and other passengers raised concerns about the defendant. 
 
 A constable with the airport constabulary told the court the trouble began when Mr Thede allegedly got up 15 minutes after take-off, with the seat belt lights still on, and demanded "nuts or crackers". 
 
 He said Mr Thede, from The Alameda in Berkeley, California, refused to sit back down again until he obtained a snack. 
 
 A member of crew managed to "appease" the passenger by giving him some nuts and Mr Thede then retook his seat. 
 
 But ten minutes later he got up and demanded more. Crew replied he would only get another snack if there were packets left over when other travellers had been served. 
 
 The policeman said Thede retorted: "I can have as much nuts and crackers as I f****** want." 
 
 Fellow passengers were also concerned by his behaviour, claiming he kept getting up and down from his seat, repeatedly opened the overhead baggage lockers, blocked the aisles and made numerous trips to the lavatories. 
 
 The captain asked a number of men to sit around the passenger in case he became violent. However, the constable acknowledged that "no one was struck" during the flight. 
 
 Mr Thede's "erratic" behaviour prompted the captain to turn round when he was already over the Atlantic, and head back to land Belfast International Airport, around 20 miles from the city centre. 
 
 Asked by a prosecution barrister to assess the cost of the incident, the constable replied: 
 
 "It would be upwards of 300,000 to 350,000 pounds. There is compensation for passengers. There were 269 passengers lying sleeping on the floor of the terminal because there were no hotel rooms found for them." 
 
 Mr Thede, denies the offences and told police the pilot had overreacted. 
 
 The constable said: "He said it wasn't him, there was a conspiracy theory against him, people were picking on him," he said. 
 
 His solicitor said alcohol was not a factor, as a police doctor had examined him upon arrest and deemed him "fit to be interviewed". 
 
 "His position is he's done nothing wrong and effectively this is an overreaction by staff in the plane, those in charge," said the lawyer. 
 
 The airport police constable objected to the granting of bail, on the ground that the accused could abscond the jurisdiction. 
 
 The defendant was remanded in custody to appear before magistrates’ next week. Judge Christopher Holmes also ordered a psychiatric examination. ||||| UPDATES HERE AND ON LINE. VIDEO OF UNRULY PASSENGER BEING ESCORTED OFF A PLANE DIVERTED TO JACKSONVILLE BECAUSE OF DISPUTE OVER RECLINED SEAT. SHE SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES. PUT THIS PLANE DOWN NOW. NEWS 4 JAX ALL RIGHT OF JACKSONVILLE AVIATION AUTHORITY DETAILING WHAT IT SAYS HAPPENED ON THE FLIGHT. SHE WASEN RAENLD WHEN THE PERSON IN THE SEAT IN FRONT OF HER RECLINE AND HIT THE HER IN THE HEAD. ONCE SHE MADE THREATS ACCORDING TO AIRLINE ATTENDANCE AND DEMANDED AN MM. ABOUT LANDING FOUR ROUTED JACK WE FIND HAILEY AT JI AICHL TO TALK TO ONE IF PERSON. IT WAS 60 BUTPING. AS HAD HE UNTIL IT WAS SUPPOSED TO LAND IN WEST PALM BEACH AT 10:00 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT. BUT IT WAS DIVERTED HERE INFORM JIA TO GET A VERY ANGRY WOMAN OFF THE AIR PLANE. THIS IS VIDEO INSIDE DELTA FLIGHT 2370. YOU CAN HEAR A PASSENGER SAY THANK YOU COUPLE CHUCKLE AS POLICE OFFICERS ESCORT UNRULY PASSENGER OFF THE PLANE. THE INCIDENT REPORTS PLANE. THE INCIDENT REPORTS 32-YEAR-OLD AMY FINE DISRUPTIVE AND THREATENING PEOPLE ON THE PLANE. SO THE MIGHT TO DIVERT THE FLIT TO JACKSONVILLE. SOME PASSENGERS WEREN'T SURE Y.THATCHER WHAT 7 ROW BEHIND HER. SCARY BECAUSE MY EAR DEFINITELY POMD AND NOTICE WE WERE GETTING LOWER AND THOUGHTS GOOD IF YOUR HOUSE? A WOMAN SIT BEING NEXT TO ME ACTUALLY JUST RECLINED HER SEAT BACK. WOMAN STARTED SCREAMING AND SWEARING AND THEN FLIGHT ATTENDANT CAME OF AND THAT HE IS ASKER BAITED WHAT WAS GOING ON AND SHE MANDYED THAT THE FLIGHT, SHE TO THE EFFECT YOJ ABOUT THE AGAINST. I WAS SHOPPED WE HAD TO DEVERT AND SURPRISING AIR MARSHALL NOBODY FAT WAS THERE AND SHE WAS CALM. SHE DID RAISE HER VOICE. SHE DID GET QUITE FRAWS STRAIGHTED. ABOUT A SHE WAS ON THE TRAY THAN MANY THEY SAY GOT UPSET AND 2 WOMEN AGAIN ARGUING. REPORT SAYS THE MORE THEY TRIED TO CALM HER DOWN THE MORE OUTRAGED SHE GAME. NIGHT ATTEND APARTMENT SAY SHE WAS TAKING HER HANTDZ AND COME BOUGHT I HAVE VERY PWERND OF SEMI-THEY FEEL E.PAEND OWE CAP WHALE SOMEBODY WAS WALKING HER PAST TO THE CABIN THEN ANNOUNCEMENT CAME ON WE WERE DIVERTING TO JOHN MCCAIN. TO THE PRISON REPORT RYAN HOSPITAL HE HAVE AND STILL VERY HE GOES MOLEAL ABOUT IT TELL. WE HEARD OF OTHER ACCIDENTS LIKE THIS WHEN SOMEBODY IS SO DISRUPTIVE THEY BRING THE FLIGHT DOWN. PEOPLE GET ARRESTED. WAS SHE ARRESTED? GOOD QUESTION. NO SHE WASN'T. MOVERS COP TACKED FBI AGENT WHO SAID TO SEND THEM A REPORT AND TO LET FINE GO SO THE OFFICERS ESCORTED HER TO THE RESPRESENTATIONAL AREA NAIR. 
 
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - 
 
 A Delta Airlines flight from LaGuardia to Palm Beach International Airport was diverted to Jacksonville when a passenger got into a dispute over a reclining seat. 
 
 Delta Flight 2370 departed at about 7 p.m. Monday, en route to West Palm Beach. According to Delta Airlines, the flight was diverted "due to safety reasons in regard to a passenger issue." 
 
 Passenger Aaron Klipin said described what happened. 
 
 "This woman sitting next to me knitting tried reclining her seat back, the woman behind her started screaming and swearing. The flight attendant came over and that exacerbated what was going on. She demanded the flight land," said Klipin. 
 
 Klipin said the woman who was agitated -- later identified as 32-year-old Amy Fine -- claimed she had her head down on the tray table trying sleep. 
 
 "She said something to the effect of, 'I don't care about the consequences, put this plane down now,'" said Klipin. "She started swearing at the flight attendants and demanding the flight land. The flight attendant spoke to the captain while somebody was blocking her path to the cabin. A few minutes later an announcement came on that we were diverting to Jacksonville." 
 
 According to the Jacksonville Aviation Authority police report, Fine, 32, of Boca Raton, was escorted off the plane, interviewed, then released. 
 
 According to the report, Fine said she was hit on the head with the seat in front of her reclined, and they "did have words," but claims she was not disruptive. 
 
 All three flight attendants were interviewed, telling police Fine was "disruptive and very loud," demanding that they land the plane immediately. 
 
 One flight attendant police that Fine told him to, "Eat (expletive) and die." 
 
 In her interview, Fine told officers she just had two dogs die and she was very emotional. 
 
 The Delta flight continued on to West Palm Beach, arriving after 11 p.m. Airport officials said they consulted with the FBI, then Fine was released and allowed to board a different flight. 
 
 This incident would be the third reported flight diversion caused by passenger disruption in the last few weeks. 
 
 Arguments over reclining seats contributed to two incidents last week. A Miami to Paris flight landed in Boston Wednesday, after air marshals on the plane restrained a man who fought with a passenger trying to recline in front of him, according to authorities. 
 
 Before that incident, a man on a United Airlines flight used a product called a Knee Defender to keep the seat in front of him from reclining. The woman in front, unable to recline, got into an argument with the man and reportedly threw a cup of water in his face. Both passengers were seated in United’s Economy Plus section, which gives fliers extra legroom for an extra fee. 
 
 That argument prompted the Newark, New Jersey-to-Denver flight to be diverted to Chicago, according to United Airlines, adding that the unidentified passengers were not allowed back on when the plane continued on to Denver.
– How to get a private plane experience at regular-plane prices: Ask Chris O'Leary. The Brooklyn man managed to fly from Cleveland to New York's LaGuardia Airport yesterday on a 76-seat plane that carried just two passengers. Initially, he was the only one. As O'Leary explains to ABC News, he was originally booked on a 7:15am Delta flight that ended up being canceled. The Brew York editor was placed on a 9:39am flight that was continually delayed, and instead of waiting it out at the airport, he remained at his hotel. He arrived at the airport to discover that everyone else had been moved to earlier flights; though Delta tried to page him to make the same arrangements for him, he wasn't there to hear them. (As the New York Daily News notes, he spent the passing hours lightly grumbling: "I’m sure @delta's doing all they can, but this still sucks.") That attitude changed once he boarded: He tweeted that he "got a personal safety briefing from my two flight attendants," along with a grinning photo of himself on the otherwise empty plane. He ultimately had to share: "The thrill is gone, you guys. Just as we were about to push back, they reconnected the jet bridge to let a second passenger on the flight," he tweeted, complete with crying emoji. But O'Leary is finding his story has legs, quipping, "Friends saying that these are my 15 minutes of fame must have forgotten about my cable-access cooking show in 7th grade." (His mom is apparently just glad he recently got a haircut.) ABC confirmed there were only two passengers aboard and suggests Delta didn't ax the nearly empty flight because the plane may have been needed in New York for a subsequent flight. (In other airline news, flight attendants feared a "devilish" image on a United plane and ended up losing their jobs.)