Passenger Breakdances Down Aisle to Celebrate Near-Empty Flight to the French Riviera

A few business travelers from England found a bright spot in the current COVID-19 scare, delighting in a nearly empty plane as they prepared to go to the French Riviera on March 9.

Matt Nicol and his friends were scheduled to attend a business conference in Nice, France, but it was postponed due to fears surrounding the virus outbreak. Nicol said he and his colleagues decided to proceed with some of the meetings they’d planned anyway.

When they boarded the almost empty plane in Bristol, England, Nicol wrote that the circumstance “gave me the once in a lifetime opportunity to caterpillar the aisle.”

The footage shows the group as they take a notably uncrowded bus to the plane, then board the underpopulated flight.

Nicol told Storyful that he and his friends had attended the same real estate conference in Cannes for the last three years, and they had expected the flight to be almost full, as it had been in years prior.

“Stewardesses have never known a flight to be so empty. They were expecting more than 120 people, with 32 checked in online overnight. But only four showed up at the gate,” Nicol told Storyful.

The global COVID-19 outbreak has killed more than 3,800 people and is continuing to spread, causing neighborhood lockdowns, school closures, and stock market plunges, and – as this footage shows – disrupting travel plans across the world. Credit: Matt Nicol via Storyful