Air Canada Pilot Orders 23 Pizzas for Passengers Stuck on a Grounded Plane During a Snow Storm

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The pilot of a grounded Air Canada flight ordered nearly two dozen pizzas for hungry passengers stuck aboard his plane for eight hours.

According tothe CBC, the flight had left Toronto, Ontario, on Monday afternoon, heading towards Halifax, Nova Scotia. Before the plane arrived, however, severe weather forced it to be diverted to Fredericton, New Brunswick, where passengers were stranded on the snowy tarmac.

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“We do a catering business here too, so we’re used to unusual numbers, but I mean on a storm night? For a plane? No,” Larivée told the CBC, adding, “I hope everybody enjoyed their pizzas.”

Hughes added that the pilot made sure to credit the crew with helping him acquire the pizzas.

“He wanted everyone to know that it was the whole crew, that he couldn’t have done it without the crew,” Hughes told the CBC. “There was lots of help, there were a couple of Air Canada Jazz pilots that were travelling 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.”

The Air Canada pilot, who is not named, isn’t the first crew member to placate stranded passengers with some slices.

In September 2018, an American Airlines pilotdelivered pizza to the 159 passengers in his cabinafter their flight, scheduled to fly from Los Angeles to Dallas/Fort-Worth, was diverted overnight to Wichita Falls, Texas, due to a storm.

source: people.com