Plane flies one passenger after 10-hour delay

The experience was tuhao, she said, using a slang term for the nouveau riche.

Most of the travelers were bound for home ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations next week when they were left stranded at the Guangzhou’s main train station after 23 trains were delayed due to poor weather condition. Because of delays, all the other passengers had chosen to swap onto an earlier flight home, leaving Ms. Zhang (whose first name was not revealed) as the only person flying.

According to the South China Morning Post, Zhang’s solo flight was not as rare as one would expect because most travelers are heading the other direction. She paid about 1,200 yuan ($181) for her golden ticket. “I feel filthy rich!”

The photographs posted on his Sina Weibo account show the young woman taking a pose amused amid rows of empty seats on the flight Wuhan-Guangzhou, China Southern Airlines.

En route, she enjoy personalised attention from the plane’s crew, plenty of leg room, and faced no crying babies or unruly fellow passengers. “I felt like a rockstar”.

“Sister, you are clearly the world’s luckiest passenger – cherish it”, read one of the comments.

Tens of thousands of Lunar New Year travellers in China were stranded on Tuesday at a station in Guangzhou, state media said, after snow and ice elsewhere disrupted the world’s largest annual human migration. This year, the Chinese New Year (Year of the Monkey) falls on February 8.

It’s expected that 2.9 billion trips will be made in the period in 2016 including 332 million trips by train. That’s usually when China’s millions of migrant workers embark on a journey back to the countryside virtually at the same time.

Chinese tradition demands that all family members must gather at home before midnight on the eve of the Lunar New Year.