Bruce Dickinson Takes To The Skies
You may have been one of the unlucky holidaymakers this year when travel company XL went bump with no warning whatsoever to its customers. Hundreds, if not thousands of British tourists were left stranded at UK airports, kicked out of hotels, refused entry into hotels they thought had been paid for and waiting for flights at international airports with no hope of being able to get home.
As it happens, Bruce Dickinson, frontman for the legendary rock band Iron Maiden, came to the rescue and flew hundreds of British travellers back home to the UK from Egyptian resort, Sharm El Sheikh.
Dickinson, who pilots for Astraeus, commented in an interview with the Mail on Sunday.
“I was just doing my job. I was called out like a lot of other pilots to help and I was obviously happy to do that.
“Some of the people on the flight were obviously frustrated by the situation they had found themselves in,” he continues. “But everyone was pretty good-natured about it all.”
I wonder how many of the passengers knew they were being rescued by a world reknowned rock star!!