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The captain of an aircraft diverted due to bad weather in the US ordered pizza to be delivered to passengers.
Frontier Airlines captain Gerhard Bradner reportedly ordered dozens of pizzas from Domino’s on his personal account, which were delivered to the 160 passengers waiting on board the Airbus A320.
The flight from Washington DC’s Reagan National airport to Denver had been diverted to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where it was forced to wait for several hours due to severe weather on Monday night.
A photo of cabin crew dishing out the food was sent to a local news network. Frontier Airlines confirmed the reports.
Passenger Logan Marie Torres told KDVR: “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 – I just ordered pizza for the entire plane’.”
Andrew Ritchie, manager at a branch of Domino’s in Cheyenne, told Associated Press that he took the phone call at 10pm local time, just as he was about to send his employees home.
They quickly cooked 35 pizzas and handed them over to flights attendants at the airport.
The aircraft took off from Cheyenne at 10.30pm local time, soon after the delivery, and landed safely in Denver 15 minutes later, the Telegraph reported.