Keeping up with the Joneses
[Vinnie] Jones, who achieved widespread fame in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels … reckons that he could have an entire aeroplane’s cabin crew bumped off for a mere £3000. This was his claim, somewhere between Tokyo and Heathrow, sometime last May, when a member of said cabin crew attempted to remonstrate with him for slapping a fellow passenger in the face, 10 times. And this was not a shonky, under-manned CheapyJet Air Van. This was a Virgin Atlantic A340-600, the longest commercial aeroplane in the world, with an on-board staff of 19. That’s less than £158 each. Cheap for a stewardess, and a downright bargain for the pilot.
– Hugo Rifkind, “Keeping up with the Joneses”, The Herald, 15 December 2003.
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