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I once went on vacation with six other family members. There were eight people on the return flight. Just us and the guy who definitely wasn't an Air Marshall

I'm pretty sure you have a better chance winning the lottery.

It's even better when they ask you if you want a free upgrade to first class, you say yes, and there's nobody next to you up there. I had that happen to me one time, and I arrived feeling more refreshed than when I left.

Look at Mr Rich here flying Premium Economy.

Nice way to casually throw out you know what good crack feels like

Once I was on a mostly empty 777 flight across the US. I had the entire row (window to window) as well as the rows in front and behind me, all to myself. It was glorious.

Had this happen to me in the middle row, on an 8 hour flight. I put the armrests up and had myself a long, bumpy bed... Sort of.
It was actually not very comfortable, however on principle I slept that way regardless.

What's with all that leg room?

My friend and I were heading back home from a work trip on a Halloween a few years back. We decided to pay extra for early boarding on a flight that was like 90-95% full. Instead of taking a seat in the front we went all the way to the back of the plane and grabbed seats in the 2nd to last row on opposite sides of the isle. A flight attendant was in the back with us wearing a devil costume. I decided then, that I would be a sick person for Halloween. As the plane filled I got a barf bag out and leaned against the window and made the most im about to puke face I could. my plan worked, 5 hours of flying with nobody in my row. the back 2 rows except mine had 2 people per section. And the row in front of me had 3. Best costume decision ever! Yeah I know total dick move but I have no regrets. The flight attendant thought I was hilarious and we shot the shit most of the flight.

Bonus, it's on a multi hour international flight.

Happened to me twice so far (over some 10 years) on red-eye flights. It’s tempting to lie down across the row, though these days, with unpredictable clear-air turbulence being more common due to global heating, long stretches of time without a seatbelt on are not as tempting as they used to be.

Flew with my two buddies one of which worked for the airline. We were flying "standby" when that was still a thing (90's). We flew the red eye from Denver to Vancouver Canada through a thunderstorm on a plane that was practically empty. Lightning actually hit the plane, I had no idea it happened until a stewardess told my airline buddy. On the way back we were at the airport in Seattle and were about to get bumped (again standby) when they gave us first class seats

Gonna watch Shrek 1, 2 and 3 on the in-flight entertainment screens

I'm afraid of flying so I'd be feeling abject terror anyway. :(

Everyone else pretending like they aren't envious.

A trick I heard is if you're on an airline with assigned seats that you get to pick, select non-contiguous seats with one in between, and either the one in between won't sell because who wants the middle seat between strangers, or you'll get someone you can kindly offer to trade seats with

nice butt stain on that seat

Depending on how I felt that day, I would mostly, A. Sit in the middle seat. B. Sit in the window seat or C. Inform the cabin after we had leveled out, that there was an open window seat over here.

D. would just be me trying to lay down over all of them. The dick move for sure.