When people list off how they imagine their dream flights, you’re bound to see some recurring ideas. No annoying crying babies, no one reclining their seat all the way back in the row in front of me, maybe even having a row all to myself. Recently, one Delta passenger got all he could ever dream of on a flight and more.

Steven Schneider got more than he bargained for when he boarded a plane bound for New Orleans out of Atlanta. Despite his initial worries when he showed up to an empty gate area, he stepped onto an empty plane and realized all of his fellow travelers opted to take other flights.

Before the plane took off he was asked if he’d like to travel home the next day instead, because he was the only passenger on the flight. It turns out, other passengers had found other ways home after the original flight had been delayed more than once. He broke the mold and went on to cruise on a private flight that usually seats about 160 people.

“At first I felt really bad, because I didn’t want the plane to only make the trip because of me,” he said. “But after talking to a flight attendant at the gate, she said the plane needed to go back to Atlanta anyway. She called this an empty leg flight.”

“We’re glad this customer enjoyed a somewhat rare solo experience. Other customers were accommodated on an earlier departure,” Delta said in a statement. “The reason we operated the flight was so this customer could have that airplane positioned back in Atlanta [and] so [the plane] could be in place for a departure the next day.”

“It was so cool,” Schneider said. “One of the flight attendants told me she hadn’t seen something like this in the 17 years she was here. Everyone was just so nice.”