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Subject: A pilot had pizza delivered to his planeload of passengers who were stuck during a snowstorm
Date: 5 Mar 2019 18:51:24 -0800
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https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pilot-serves-pizza-to-stranded-passengers-trnd/index.html
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.
the pilot's call and took down his order for 23 pizzas topped with cheese and
pepperoni.
said.
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.
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."
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.
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