Lots of people who are unfamiliar with planes mistakenly refer to any jumbo jet as a 747. Perhaps this is what the poster did? Ten years ago Delta would have been flying 767’s and L-1011’s between BOS and ATL, though. Both are large widebody airliners. Could that have really been what the poster flew on? Because the only other domestic airlines that even flew 747’s ten years ago were Northwest and United. And I’m sure neither of them were even flying BOS-ATL non-stop flights.

At first, it didn’t make sense that you would go to walk around Boston with only 4 hours (3.5 really) to spare, but I guess it’s possible. Getting to and across on the water taxi from Logan could be a 30 min trip, as could getting to Boston on the on the T. They could take 30 minutes, but you’d leave at least an hour getting back to be sure – so that leaves you a maximum 2.5 hours for walking – minus a half hour, since you apparently got back more than an hour before your scheduled flight (or they wouldn’t have let you on the earlier flight). So I guess it’s feasible.

But who are these other 3 people? The three people who didn’t get on the earlier flight? Were they the only other people on the plane? It seems like you are implying that, but it’s not clear. If you don’t know them, why would you care if you sat with them? I agree, if there were only 4 people on the flight it probably wouldn’t matter where you sat – weight wise – or were you on the earlier flight? That too isn’t clear?

The prison thing seems weird – you have an active imagination, although I guess I can see it was a little creepy if you were the only one in the cabin. Were you? Not clear if you were alone, or simply not with those other 3 people.