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Subject: Re: A pilot had pizza delivered to his planeload of passengers who were stuck during a snowstorm
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Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:q5ncjc0gvv@drn.newsguy.com:
> https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pilot-serves-pizza-to-stranded-passe
> ngers-trnd/index.html
>
> Canada flight were beginning to feel the stress, but their pilot knew
> the answer: 23 pizzas delivered to the airplane's door.
>
> Air Canada Flight 608 left Toronto bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on
> Monday night, but bad weather forced the aircraft to be diverted to
> Fredericton, New Brunswick. After several hours stuck in the plane,
> the pilot decided to order food.
>
> received the pilot's call and took down his order for 23 pizzas topped
> with cheese and pepperoni.
>
> "We told him we could have them made in an hour or hour and a half,"
>
> She said they have never delivered pizza to an airplane, and they were
> "laughing all night" about the unusual order.
>
> Her crew got the pizzas ready in an hour and sent them to the airport
> via Minglers' delivery service.
>
> arrival and the captain sent people to meet the delivery at the door.
>
> Passenger Philomena Hughes told CNN partner CBC News that she credits
> the pilot for keeping the passengers informed and fed after being on
> the plane for about eight hours from the time they boarded in Toronto.
>
> "It was something that could have been very stressful; he made it a
> lot easier," she said. "There was lots of help, there were a couple of
> Air Canada Jazz pilots that were traveling on the plane and they were
> helping to pick up the pizza and distribute it. Everybody chipped in,
> so he didn't want to take the whole credit for himself."
>
> called the restaurant on Tuesday to thank the staff for getting the
> pizza to the plane so quickly.
>
> The plane was scheduled to arrive back in Halifax on Tuesday
> afternoon.
LOL! That's a good story. Airline regs in the
US would doubtless have blocked it, but bravo to
the Canadians.
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