Frankfurt Airport

[john b good]

The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speed bird 206.

Speed bird 206: "Frankfurt, Speed bird 206 clear of active runway"

Ground: "Speed bird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven." The PA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.

Ground: "Speed bird, do you not know where you are going?"

Speed bird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speed bird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"

Speed bird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark,.... and I didn't land."

[falux]

It was funny, when I read it the first time...

[Axel]

It was funny, when I read it the first time...

Well, it is a classic but always good to read.

[falux]

Sure,

I used to work for an airline, sometimes those funny speeches are not that funny when you are personally involved