Delta pilot orders pizza for angry passengers
May 28, 2015, 12:14 am
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Last month I had a bad MX delay and sandwiches were delivered to the gate. I'm certain that the GA or mechanics did not pay for that food.
May 28, 2015, 1:26 am
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I'm sure the Pilot didn't order it... unless ordering meant "Ops, Delta 1561, hey could you get some stuff out here while we wait, we have 150 souls on board that sure would like a pizza" and the station whipped out the IROP charge card and dialed the local pizza hut.
May 28, 2015, 10:44 am
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It looks that way because of the way the Sky Interior bins are contoured, but I'm almost positive it's a 739. The second picture is clearer where you can see the starboard PSU.
Also, I like how the passenger who appears to be seated in 17D is basically giving the camera the finger.
Also, I like how the passenger who appears to be seated in 17D is basically giving the camera the finger.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/marcos...131300165.html
Speaking from experience, 40 pizzas is nothing, but preparing them all at once for delivery to a single customer takes some coordination.
May 28, 2015, 12:19 pm
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However, if someone deplanes and goes through customs and immigration, I don't think they can then be permitted to reboard if doing so means mixing in with passengers who have not been processed by CBP. So AFAIK either the entire flight would need to do CBP or no one who deplaned could be permitted to reboard.
Again, no one got off but we were told if we did, we were on our own and our bags would catch up with us later.
May 28, 2015, 3:09 pm
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My pilots yesterday gave Dunkin Donuts to the whole plane. Our DTW-LGA flight yesterday had to deal with weather issues and a ground stop at both airports, and we ended up diverting to Hartford, CT (BDL) to fuel up and wait it out. Very long DTW-LGA flight!! The pilots apologized that donuts (at BDL) were all they could come up with in the time they had. It was appreciated.
May 28, 2015, 9:25 pm
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There is a "Paul Harvey' (The Rest of the Story) to this:
Delta had 6 aircraft that were diverted to Knoxville and the Station Manager
was the one that ordered out the pizzas (all told 125 of them) and arranged
for a police escort on the field to deliver the timely food so that when clearance
came from Atlanta the flights could resume with minimal delay.
So it was not a Captain but the ground crew who made a great save.
I would suspect that in the future when these events happen that the airlines
MAY look at this as a way to salvage PR and keep control of difficult situation
to minimize the delay.
Delta had 6 aircraft that were diverted to Knoxville and the Station Manager
was the one that ordered out the pizzas (all told 125 of them) and arranged
for a police escort on the field to deliver the timely food so that when clearance
came from Atlanta the flights could resume with minimal delay.
So it was not a Captain but the ground crew who made a great save.
I would suspect that in the future when these events happen that the airlines
MAY look at this as a way to salvage PR and keep control of difficult situation
to minimize the delay.
May 29, 2015, 5:29 am
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http://www.wbir.com/story/life/2015/...arty/28124197/
there's the local story. pizza was from Marco's.
hella bad storms around here the past two days.
there's the local story. pizza was from Marco's.
hella bad storms around here the past two days.
May 29, 2015, 7:59 am
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May 29, 2015, 10:48 am
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May 29, 2015, 11:06 am
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Do other airlines' elite bag tags have any identifying info like FF#/name? I just smile blankly when people ask me what the point of our bag tags are.