Pilot buys pizzas for passengers on diverted flight
The pilot of a US flight treated the entire plane to pizza after the flight was diverted due to bad weather.
Captain Gerhard Bradner, on Frontier Airlines Flight 719, felt so sorry for the 160 passengers on board he called Dominos and order 50 pizzas, paying on his own personal account.
According to local Colorado TV news network KDVR, the three-hour flight from Washington DC to Denver on Monday turned into seven hours due to severe weather.
The flight left Washington nearly an hour late then had to land at Cheyenne Regional Airport because it was running low on fuel.
After waiting around an hour on the ground, the Captain decided it was time to take action and called for pizza delivery.
He told KDVR he was hungry and the passengers were hungry, so he stepped in to help.
Passengers said he announced: "Ladies and gentleman, Frontier Airlines is known for being one of the cheapest airlines in the US, but your captain is not cheap. I just ordered pizza for the entire plane."
After cabin crew handed out the pizzas, the flight finally took off and arrived at Denver International Airport nearly five hours late.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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