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Dutch King lets passenger on overbooked flight sit in cockpit
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is a well-known pilot. He thinks flying is fun and trained as a pilot for the national Dutch air-operator, KLM. This week, a special thing happened on one of a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Paris, under the charge of the Dutch king.
The flight was overbooked and it was Willem-Alexander who came up with the great solution that made one passenger very happy. During boarding, it was made clear that the flight was one seat short and it seemed that one person had to be left in Amsterdam. The king and captain then decided that the person who was in danger of being left behind at Schiphol could take the extra seat in the cockpit.
Another great surprise was that the ground staff who handled this flight didn’t know who the pilot was. The lucky cockpit-passenger could reveal to Dutch media that both himself and the staff were quite shocked when they saw who was flying the plane.
https://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/netherlands/dutch-king-lets-passenger-on-overbooked-flight-sit-in-cockpit-133376/?fbclid=IwAR38BGI58l0tGUYdE4SD395hkRdyU3Oyyx7Ck0ldFTLgcEWu8HNRMDy4EWU
His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands is a well-known pilot. He thinks flying is fun and trained as a pilot for the national Dutch air-operator, KLM. This week, a special thing happened on one of a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Paris, under the charge of the Dutch king.
The flight was overbooked and it was Willem-Alexander who came up with the great solution that made one passenger very happy. During boarding, it was made clear that the flight was one seat short and it seemed that one person had to be left in Amsterdam. The king and captain then decided that the person who was in danger of being left behind at Schiphol could take the extra seat in the cockpit.
Another great surprise was that the ground staff who handled this flight didn’t know who the pilot was. The lucky cockpit-passenger could reveal to Dutch media that both himself and the staff were quite shocked when they saw who was flying the plane.
https://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/netherlands/dutch-king-lets-passenger-on-overbooked-flight-sit-in-cockpit-133376/?fbclid=IwAR38BGI58l0tGUYdE4SD395hkRdyU3Oyyx7Ck0ldFTLgcEWu8HNRMDy4EWU
