Passenger on easyJet flight announces that he's flying the plane to Alicante
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Holidaymakers travelling on an easyJet flight to Alicante from Manchester Airport were astonished when a passenger took to the microphone in the cabin to announce HE was flying the plane.
Having been told by his wife that they were facing a delay, qualified easyJet pilot Michael Bradley 'deliberately' took his licence and ID along to the airport.
He made a quick call to easyJet's head office, and the airline made arrangements to allow him to fly the Airbus to their destination - meaning their holiday wasn't delayed any further.
An easyJet spokesman said the incident was 'exceptional' and stressed that Michael was well-rested, having previously had four days off, and was legally permitted to fly the aircraft.
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When I read the title, I thought he hijacked the plane mid flight
Kev The Man Samee😂
Me To
And then politely announced his takeover? Lol
Kev The Man same
Clickbaited whayyy
Imagine being able to say you flew yourself on holiday
Most pilots probably already do.
Pilots life in a nutshell
Nick Baldeagle Thanks for the reply lol, just made me aware of the likes I got on this comment, had no idea it would get this many!!
He is a pilot though so... and a lot of pilots still fly on Christmas anyways :/
@@arrow5726 Yeah, don't take it seriously. It was a joke. I am an aviation enthusiast I'm not stupid. :P
When you logged 10 hours on a flight simulator
AirJetProud95
iDEaXANA blog it
@@iDEaXANA AirFartProud95
When I log 248 hours on Microsoft Flight Simulator (me btw)
Lol
Easyjet holidays
Captain not included*
henry c lmao fly your own to pleasure your own excitement HAHAHAHHA
Thomas cook holidays
Company not included**
Shane redgate LOLL
Shane redgate flight home not included
I've heard of bring your own bottle. But, bring your own pilot?😂
Fucking legend also lucky passenger's
Passengers
Nick Baldeagle duck up
Jonathan Stringer passengers*
Lucky? As someone who's scared of flying this would have made me very anxious.
shock jockey I don’t understand why people are scared of flying. I thought I might be when I flew on a plane for the first time last month, but the anxiety was gone quite quickly and now I wish I could fly more often. It’s such an awesome experience.
Title made it sound like a Love island chap hijacking the plane
u read my mind aha
Yeah he’s an easyJet pilot just on his day off
@@Darkiie Yeah we get that now lmao but I don't think that's what any of us expected when we read the title haha
I disagree. The title states no more than exactly what happened. I see no clickbait here.
@@MauMau850 No one said clickbait, the title just looks like someone would hijack the plane and announce it
Of course he is showing off - but why shouldn’t he
Because hes a boy YASSSSSSSSS queen
He was a little but he had to ask if they were ok with it.
@@the_new_day8866 feminist?
Damm right but so he should, also he's hardly in captain attire so I'd rather he did what he did just incase I'm the "sour type"
Well he does have to explain because hes not dressed to fly.
Easyjet: The flight will be delayed by two hours.
Michael Bradley: Hold my beer… … … … … BAG! I meant BAG!!!
Armin Hierstetter Bag!😂😂
No drunk flying!
EmJeeButterz why not, I use to do it all the time I crashed 😬
😂😂😂😂😂
easyJet
Top man. Salvaging his family's holiday and that of all the other passengers!
Milking it like a wanker more like.
Actually had he decided not to step in the cockpit. His holiday is also screwed. He save his and the passenger holiday
@@mtuz8356 So you do acknowledge he was being wanker then? Its one thing to take pride in your achievements but another to show of or "flex" as you put it.
@@mtuz8356 Ok thanks.
Michael's family have been neighbours (literally across the close) of ours from the day we all moved into our respective homes on a new development. My wife and I couldn't wish for better neighbours. Both Michael and Neil (brother) are sons to be proud of and a credit to their fine parents.
The man's a bloody legend. True grit that's what the world needs today.
Dope!
Flights are delayed.
Random guy: I’m a pilot!
EasyJet: Oh go on then
Hes an easyjet pilot btw
Hence the name Easy-Jet
Hence the name Easy-Jet
Jlister Gaming 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣funniest comment!
Philippe Micheli thanks
I hope the airline give him double pay for his service..top bloke!
Yeah I bet they won’t. He might be a good pilot but they are generally a shite airline.
@@PietroShitzberg really? Never fly on easyjet before..
They are absolutely NOT a “shit” airline. I’ve flown may times with easyJet, always a fantastic service. The crew I’ve spoken too on flights also say that easyJet take great care of their staff, so I have no doubt this gentlemen will receive some recognition.
easyJet is easily the best budget airline in Europe.
@@PietroShitzberg they ain't bad I was planning to be a british airways pilot but now after seeing how easyjet takes care of there pilots in their training program i might go with them
"Fine, I'll do it myself."
Name Name fuck it we’ll do it live
Would have been some unreal snapchats coming from that cockpit.
@@Alexander_l322 *I see what you did there*
@@yasu3dI see *what* you did there
This is something you don't see or hear of very often. Very well done to the stand in captain. Loved it.
if someone doing there job is unusual and different to you then you need to get out an experience the world a bit more... you must lead a very boring life
@@freelectron2029it wasn’t his job to do you dope, that’s the whole point of the video
And I thought Ryanair would be the first to offer a Bring Your Own Pilot scheme. ✈️
This guy is too over qualified for Ryanair, pilots with licences cost more
😆👏👏
I’ve flown with this guy, nice bloke, introduces all his FOs as being “ace at flying”. I thought he was paying me a compliment but then I passengered with him as Captain and he made the same PA about his FO, deflated is not the word 😂
Aww, but you're cute so I'm sure you're an ace at flying!! May all your flights be perfect and you have a nice long career and life! 🙏
The moment a commercial airliner turned into a personal jet for Captain AND Passengers (c/w Crew)....Seriously,that must have felt like they OWNED IT!
Must have
@@Nickbaldeagle02 ''have'' ...Edited,Cheers Nick.
And he better got that flight for free lmao
@@parabellum.5769 Free drinks all round!
Anton Imeri he flies for easyjet as his regular job so I’m sure he got his free and his family was probably reduced tickets or even free (not including taxes always gotta pay big brother.)
So basically a off duty pilot, offers himself to fly the plane, and M.E.N literally makes it look like a normal passenger piloted the plane. Nice.
He would’ve been a passenger though
@@noah321 yeah but not a regular passenger, he works for that company
@@Razorjaxx That's like saying someone who works at a grocery store isn't a regualar customer because they work for the same company.
@@tripletgalaxy that makes sense to me, if you work for a company you not really a regular customer, you are a colleague that on day off becomes a customer
ikr. Technically they're not wrong but practically they are. I was expecting that the "passenger" was an ex-pilot, or at least a pilot of another airline. It's not really strange/surprising for a pilot of the same company to take on the job.
What he didn't mention was that he had been in the bar for the last 2 hours! 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Frank64 hahahahah
Well thats actually a very good point. This is very frightening indeed.
If we have to take less than a bloody thimble of fluids onboard... have our genitals fondled by the security.... what the fuck... allowing a complete stranger to fly your plane???
@@georginacat7667 hes not a complete stranger. he didnt just raise his hand and volunteered to steer the plane. THIS guy actually has thouasands of hours of flying expierence. he also had to contact the head office for the air line, where they ran his back ground check , made sure he is good to fly,etc. and let him fly. youd have to be a complete moron to go for a career that takes10 years to accomplish and throw it away for some booze. think about it. our Air lines and airports are safer than the border.
For the love of it, didnt you hear he said he had his little boy with him?! Do you drink with kids?! Moronic creature ...you millenials have no place on earth whatsoever !
"ok done, now to the important matter.. which one is the gas pedal?"
2hs of delay later...."oh wait...there are none"
0:46
"Well phone you back"
"38 seconds later,..."
LMAO
What a man.
And great milking session too.
He should have got a few thousand feet up then “accidentally” left the mic on so they can hear him saying “well I think they bought it, they still think I’m a pilot, so tell me again how you fly this bloody thing”
😂
Milking it and rightfully so good on him 🐄
Who else thought you was bout to watch someone attempting to hijack a plane😭
Nobody
Plot Twist: He is not a pilot he just want to drive a plane.
Kind of like Dirty Harry?
Bubboy Darker 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"As long as you don't mind your captain looking like this?" Me, I could care less what you look like mate, wear a pink tutu for all I care, just get me on holiday ;)
If he had, it might have meant a stag do, in which case the tutu would have been the least of my worries...
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@J D Thanks mate.. I keep seeing asshats saying "could care less"
Clearly these fucks haven't thought about the meaning of what they're saying when they fuck up such a simple colloquialism..
EasyJet keeping it real. Love them! Wouldn't fly with any other airline.
What a legend, he worked on his holiday
Arcadiez personally flying an A320 would be my ideal holiday lol
Who's got the clap here??
JayJay Jellybean 👏🏻
👏
I've recently overcome my pussy rash!! Cannot afford to go through that shit again!!!!!!
“We don’t have pilot”
This dude: hold my beer
A man doing what men do. 👍🏻
Damn This guy is the coolest man I ever seen in my entire life.
I know the logo stands for Manchester Evening News, but yes. Men indeed! ❤️
Fair play to this guy.
Please let him be my next pilot
vanessa schofield. What an amazing lovley man and lucky for all the other passengers!!!!!thankyou for helping them all to have there well deserve holiday away!!!!!bless you sir
This is very extraordinary, where a passenger is willing to help fly a plane so that his family and plane passengers reach their destination, even though he is taking a holiday. In my opinion, this is the best pilot
look at me, im the captain now.
Kashmir 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Imagine being him just thinking "im awesome”
Nice commercial for easyjet
With a voice like that...sounds like he could fly a plane to me.
He really went 'Fine, I'll do it myself.'
big plane full of fuel and a day off and "allowed" to fly it.. I'm sure there's better vacation spots than Alicante 🙄😂
Yeah, like the north coast on Spain, or ibiza...
You will also be accompanied by 2 friendly F-15 tour guides just incase you want to go somewhere else🙄😂
Wonder if he got a vacation day back? Lol
Ryan Campbell and free tickets for him and his family
@@parabellum.5769 As he is already an easyjet pilot, most likely he already gets free flights for himself and family.
Excellent!
Is this what the young kids would call “a flex”?
Nice work.
*Starts music* "damn it feels good to be a gangsta"
Someone buy this guy a drink
Who are these ppl that reacted so nicely??? I want them in my flights moving forward.
Native Brits and Irish.
When your flight simulator is more expensive than your easy jet flight
I thought this was a joke. But clearly not. Fair play to him what a ledge.
Man your dp is deceiving lol
@@Kakinou123 was you trying to blow away the eye lash lol
Something my dad would do after sitting in a plane simulator for 3 hours at work
This made me smile a very wide smile!
Your headline is both confusing and misleading.
Will’s gonna love this
This man is a LEGEND....
The pilot is way ahead on the Holiday dresscode
I thought I was watching a Southwest pilot talking for a second... that's totally what Southwest employees would do!🙂
now, the goodbye speech in Alicante: You see my mother was wrong; all these hours on the flight simulator paid off! Thanks, Microsoft!
i love easy jet in general
I fly with them all the time..Great airline
Good on him, was nice to announce it all as well.
What he didnt mention to them was that it was only his hgv license that he had aquired.
First I hope they gave him his ticket money back and paid him overtime. He’s too awesome!!!
Always someone needing overtime lol
Martin Cosgrove Overtime for pilots is crazy. With most airlines, one can easily make upwards of half a million dollars a year by working over their normal hours.
@@yammmit you what
I'm unsure about this. He would have had no access to the pilot briefing that occurs before the flight, where they discuss NOTAM's and weather etc. So not really fully prepared for the flight. He would have to rely on the other pilot to quickly brief him.
Martin W I think that would have happened as he arrived at the airport. They wouldn’t load the plane with passenger if there wasn’t already a full crew on board. The delay was known about in advance, as he took his licence etc to the airport (wouldnt do that if he was just going on holiday).
Must have had some pre-planning to be fair. 2 hours is a decent amount of time. I don't know about your personal experience, but logistically, it wouldn't be too hard for EJ to contact control and get him a temp for that day. It could very well be done in a few hours, and like the other said, if they weren't confident that they would get the flight off, they wouldn't have boarded the plane, i imagine it's a pretty expensive process just to have to get everyone off again
@@woolery2631
I may have misunderstood this to be honest. I assumed he was in his seat on the plane. Looks like he was in the airport. Thus would have had time for the briefing.
We all have those uncle's at holiday dinners who brag about how much time they saved. This dude gets to like, "Yeah?, I flew our place cuz the pilot was late, pass the potatoes Jerry."
So EasyJet gets to make an ad out of its lack of reliability....
some companies have no sense of shame.
And if you knew anything, you’d know that they staff had all been displaced because of ATC issues in France. This wasn’t on Eastjet this time.
Extra legroom $50
Extra bag $70
Off duty Captain that shows up.. Priceless
Way to go Captain !!!!!
Did he gait paid for it? /his flights free?
Well, as with any airline, he is probably flying for next to free as an employee, and according to his contract, should probably also get paid..
God luck to him hope he got money back not only was he wanting to get in holiday but also all the others lovely chap
I thought he'd just be crackin bants while the plane takeoff was delayed. I would not be cool with another passenger flying my plane
He's an easyJet captain... you couldn't be safer.
How do you know when there is a pilot in the room? They’ll tell you.
Absolutely love this!
Some hero’s don’t wear capes !!!!
So if you want to enjoy your holiday as a pilot just drink few beers then company won’t ask you to fly lol
People don’t realize how important is their job, people that literally loves our biggest dream, also take responsibility for the life of 200+ people, without them we would go in ships all day
An amazing video on my Bday! I hope I’m just like him in the future. (Being a Pilot is my Dream!)
Making it sound like John Terry has chugged half a bottle of tequila & gone awol. 😂
No one:
Pilot: Im flying myself to my own holiday. 🤣
Actually no one else:
I don't want to know how long he prepared for this moment
Even EasyJet Pilots have same treatment as passangers, the advantage is that they can work over time during their holidays to save their own family holidays from the big low cost company they are working for. Nobody gets saved from aviation kaos. Unf***ingbelievable.
Nice gesture, we also made a very tidy sum of working an off day that would have pretty much paid for his holiday.
Fairplay to him. Good on you mate. Hope you charged them triple.
Bloody awesome . Good on him
How did this make so many news outlets when he's a bloody pilot for easyjet already.
That man is a legend
I thought some weirdo hijacked the plane at the start
FANTASTIC
The British spirit right there.
No wonder, It’s easyJet. one time my seat broke down on the floor!
No it didn’t
Guess you need to start losing weight.
Ultimate pilot flex
Ryanair would have charged him double for the extra leg room!!
Waw lucky bunch of passengers
Change the damn title i thought he hijacked a plane
too cool
I really thought that it was gonna be a ....."OKAY!! I AM ZE CAPYTON NOW"
I think if he didn't already work for the airline this wouldn't have happened. No way they were going to let someone unfamiliar with their operations/airplanes do it, especially so close to the 737 Max incidents.
Nevertheless cool story.
I mean, if he was type-rated, why not? Yeah, certain procedures might be a little different, but as long as he's certified and licensed, why not?