Dragonfighter wrote:In the late seventies a British Airways captain was close to retiring. He flew as a substitute into Frankfurt Airport in Germany. The controllers had a reputation of being curt. Being unfamiliar with the airport layout, he requested progressive taxi instructions (turn by turn instructions) after turn out from the runway. The ground controller tersely asked, "Haven't you been to Frankfurt before?" The perturbed captain responded, "Yes. But it was 30 years ago, at night and I didn't land." He got his request.
A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): “Ground, what is our start clearance time?”
Ground (in English): “If you want an answer you must speak in English.”
Lufthansa (in English): “I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany . Why must I speak English?
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): “Because you lost the bloody war!”
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