Credit Crunch forces Prince William to fly Economy
The Telegraph is reporting that Prince William will now fly economy class whenever possible…
“He is determined to get his travelling costs down,” a senior courtier tells Mandrake. “Obviously there will be occasions when his security team will advise him against this, but he has told us that his default position from now on will be to turn right when he enters an aircraft. He is acutely aware that this is no time for ostentatious expenditure.”
When the 26-year-old prince flew off to Courchevel for a skiing holiday with his girlfriend Kate Middleton and her family earlier this month, it went unreported that the second in line to the throne sat among the economy passengers on the British Airways Heathrow to Geneva flight.
The paper’s source recounts;
“There was a security presence, but it was all very low-key and William sat with Kate, her sister Pippa and a group of friends among the other passengers,”
“I think a lot of people on the flight didn’t even realise who they were. William actually hates having a fuss made of him when he travels and said that he found it a lot more relaxing than having the cabin crew all nervously hovering around him at the front of the aircraft.”
March 28th, 2009 20:27
I suspect he sat in economy, because that’s where all his friends were. But I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Now, if he could only learn to stop being helped out of clubs half in-the-bag, we might be getting somewhere.
March 28th, 2009 20:44
Hatey Katey at the DM has the story as if it were her exclusive.
March 28th, 2009 21:52
early april fools???
March 29th, 2009 00:17
i think he should go to clubs to save some of his money