The Blaze: Compassionate Pilot Delays Flight For Grieving Grandfather

I’ve been wanting to weigh in on this for awhile. The pilot’s decision to wait brings me to tears. I’m sure it probably inconvenienced a bunch of people on the plane (though I think once they knew what was up, they would understand) and yet this pilot made the decision to delay the flight and even met the grieving grandfather on the jetway to let him know that he’d get the guy to Denver and that he was sorry for his loss.

The travel blog Elliot.Org weighed in on it and called the pilot’s words “the quote of the year”.

Thank God for people like this pilot. In a world where time is money, they bring some sanity.