"There will be so many giant aircraft that there won't be enough customers to fill them, and airline press gangs will roam the streets around our airports dragging defenceless members of the public away to occupy seats on their planes."

Truly Truth is stranger than fiction....

Flybe 'hire actors' to fill up planes

Flybe 'hire actors' to fill up planes

LORNA MARSH

30 March 2008 11:39

Norwich airport bosses were today at war with Flybe after the budget carrier advertised for actors to falsely bump up passenger numbers in a bid to get a bonus.

Richard Jenner, MD of Norwich International, said that he was "absolutely shocked" at the airline's money-spinning plan of using bogus passengers to fill extra flights and reach its quota, saying it was "underhand" at a cost to the environment.

As people across the globe prepared for Earth Hour Flybe chiefs admitted laying on extra flights to Dublin in a bid to reach the figures required to earn an extra £280,000 from Norwich airport even though it had already been promised half that amount for getting close to the full quota.

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