--- title: These Plane Passengers Got Pizzas While They Were Waiting for Takeoff description: "Did you say you want these pizzas delivered to Terminal A, or directly to the tarmac?" canonical: https://time.com/2969438/pilot-pizzas/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-09T13:03:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:30.126Z og:title: These Plane Passengers Got Pizzas While They Were Waiting for Takeoff og:description: "Did you say you want these pizzas delivered to Terminal A, or directly to the tarmac?" og:url: https://time.com/2969438/pilot-pizzas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b0ce859c43313e/69869b06169ab0029b27a457/dominos.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Domino's Reports Almost 20 Percent Increase In Quarterly Profits og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Plane Passengers Got Pizzas While They Were Waiting for Takeoff twitter:description: "Did you say you want these pizzas delivered to Terminal A, or directly to the tarmac?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b0ce859c43313e/69869b06169ab0029b27a457/dominos.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Pilot Ordered Pizza for His Passengers During a Massive Delay by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jul 9, 2014 1:03 PM UTC  A sign is posted outside of a Domino's Pizza restaurant on May 1, 2014 in San Francisco, California. A sign is posted outside of a Domino's Pizza restaurant on May 1, 2014 in San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jul 9, 2014 1:03 PM UTC Call it a [pie in the sky](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FODD%5FPIZZA%5FPILOT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-07-08-22-54-19). When a Frontier Airlines pilot of a Denver-bound flight found himself confronted with a diversion to Cheyenne, Wyoming, he did what any responsible pilot would do: he bought his passengers pizzas. Cheyenne Domino’s Pizza got a call at 10 p.m. and delivered 35 pizzas to the airport, where the driver handed the food off to the flight attendants, the Associated Press reports. The flight resumed on its way to Denver around 10:30 p.m., shortly after the pizzas arrived. Domino’s manager, Andrew Ritchie, said his team needed to make in half an hour what they usually make in one full hour. “It was definitely one of those ‘challenge accepted’ moments in time.” \[[_AP_](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US%5FODD%5FPIZZA%5FPILOT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-07-08-22-54-19)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2969438/pilot-pizzas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2969438/pilot-pizzas/"},"headline":"This Pilot Ordered Pizza for His Passengers During a Massive Delay","datePublished":"2014-07-09T13:03:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:30.126Z","description":"\"Did you say you want these pizzas delivered to Terminal A, or directly to the tarmac?\"","url":"https://time.com/2969438/pilot-pizzas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b0ce859c43313e/69869b06169ab0029b27a457/dominos.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt49b0ce859c43313e/69869b06169ab0029b27a457/dominos.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Domino's Reports Almost 20 Percent Increase In Quarterly Profits","caption":"Domino's Reports Almost 20 Percent Increase In Quarterly Profits","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2969438/pilot-pizzas/","name":"This Pilot Ordered Pizza for His Passengers During a Massive Delay"}}]}] ```