Laurent, Prince of Belgium: Buy Economy, Fly Business !

[Flanders]

I had a good laugh and wanted to share with you guys. Sorry, only in dutch so far.

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/1008/Showb ... iegt.dhtml

[diminbru]

I had a good laugh and wanted to share with you guys. Sorry, only in dutch so far.

http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/1008/Showb ... iegt.dhtml

Then it's only Prince Laurent. The rest of the royal family is very humble and discreet on board...

[cnc]

not only flight crew shivers when they hear his name, ground crew also

[Stij]

I'm not a royalist at all, on the contrary, but in his defence: he's far from alone!

I witnessed twice a BV (Famous Flemish) on board Brussels Airlines and twice they took a seat in the forward section of the plane, twice anonther passenger showed up to claim the seat, and twice the discussion started.

The first time a BV refused to change seats because of whom he was. Only when a stewardess intervened and informed his BV-ness that if he wouldn't move his toches he would stay in Milan. This guy is an actor and cooks on location, you figure it out.

The second time on a flight between Berlin and Brussels another smart BV claimed his boarding pass clearly indicated row 9. Only after a few minutes he admitted he it was 19 saying the 1 was very pourly printed. Poor excuse, poor try. This guy is an actor and sometimes presents a TV show.

The single famous Walloon I saw on a plane behaved really well, Didier Reynders was once on my flight from Zurich to Brussels, apparently travelling private, boarded one of the last and was seated on the last row. No problems whatsoever.

Cheers,

Stij

P.S. The identification of the BV's: copywrite by my girlfriend, I don't know all these buys and girls.

[Didymus]

This guy is an actor and cooks on location, you figure it out.

Definitely Eugène Bervoets. At least he didn't claim the captain's seat.

[SN_fan]

Hofleverancier
14 augustus 2010. Na een vakantie met zijn gezin in Italië gaat prins Laurent aan boord van de Brussels Airlines-vlucht naar Brussel. Hij heeft zes tickets bij zich, want hij is vergezeld van prinses Claire, prinses Louise (7), de prinsjes Nicolas en Aymeric (5) en een nanny. Het zijn zes b.flex-tickets, economy dus, maar er zijn deze keer verscheidene lege plaatsen in businessclass.

"Hij plofte daar gewoon neer", zegt een ooggetuige. "Zonder wat te vragen. Het cabinepersoneel overlegde en besloot niet nog eens het risico te lopen op een scène. Het gedrag van de prins was zonder meer grof. Hij had zich via een aparte gang naar het vliegtuig laten brengen, liet de andere passagiers wachten en kwam pas aan boord toen iedereen al zat. Opnieuw bestelde het gezelschap drankjes en voedsel en werd er niets betaald. Tijdens de vlucht kreeg de prins jeuk en moest de nanny onder het oog van iedereen zijn rug krabben. Een mooi gezicht."

Insinuating that he should have paid for it although if the article is factual, the food and drinks are included in b.flex.
But then again, de Morgen is a more socialist newspaper who're less pro monarchy,...

[9vsmu]

common guys,

we want names, facts,....... GOSSIP

[appel]

if they are too annoying the captain can just kick them out

[Stij]

if they are too annoying the captain can just kick them out

Oh well, it 's always fun to see them making an *ss of themselves. It makes the flight interesting and amusing!

Cheers,

Stij