I read a great, short piece on PlaneBuzz today. It has the interesting title: "We Knew This Was Going to Happen." It was about a passenger on an airplane with a iPhone who mimicked the Apple television commercial in which a flight attendant somehow used his iPhone to get the plane out of the gate and into the air despite a weather delay.It seems life imitated "art" recently when an actual passenger questioned the delay of a flight due to weather. He challenged the crew's explanation as to why they weren't airborne, and the pilot got onto the public address system with this reply:
"If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control center to arrange our timely departure amongst the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones, then we will be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the Flight Attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multi-million dollar aircraft and its passengers to safely leave."
Priceless! I wish I could think of things like that to say. Perfect!
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