Where was John Travolta????
According to the Daily Mail, Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickenson ‘flew to the rescue’ of 221 stranded Brit vacationers in Egypt.
The credit crunch is global and a big British vacation package company went bust right before the weekend, leaving many holidaying Brits all around the world with no way to get home!
The heavy-metal star brushed off his captain wings with British airline Astraeus to answer the call for help.
The Mail says Dickenson’s been a captain with Astraeus for two-and-a-half years, having worked for the airline for nine years. The rocker decided to become a pilot during a low point in his solo career, which began when he quit the band in 1993. He learned to fly commercial planes and secured his first job with an out-of-business airline, British World.
Dickenson told the paper, “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 but everyone was pretty good-natured about it all.”
He also said that after a nap he was heading out to Greece to pick up Brits stuck on the island of Kos.
Nice!
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