(US) Domino's
pizza manager Andy Ritchie has taken a lot of orders, but never one
quite like this: to feed an entire plane full of hungry, delayed
passengers.
It was about 10:30 pm on Monday when the pilot of the Frontier
Airlines flight called in, said Ritchie, manager at the pizza chain
in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The pilot wanted to feed all 160 passengers and crew to make up for
the delay, so Ritchie and his two employees whipped up around 35
pizzas and delivered them to the plane.
"We took them up to the front desk at the airport and they escorted
our driver to the back and they handed the pizzas directly to the
flight attendants," Ritchie told AFP.
The plane was en route from Washington when it was diverted to
Cheyenne while it waited for bad weather to clear in Denver, US
media said.
The plane, which was already hours behind schedule, sat on the
ground at the small airport for about two hours, and there was no
food on board.
Eventually the pilot made an announcement.
"He said 'Ladies and gentleman, Frontier Airlines is known for
being one of the cheapest airlines in the US, but your captain is
not cheap,' passenger Logan Marie Torres told KDVR. "'I just
ordered pizza for the entire plane.'"
Ritchie confirmed that it was the pilot who paid by credit card for
the order, which was several hundred dollars.
