Scene: The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that a KLM 747 listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground Control: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
(The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop. )
Ground Control: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground Control: (With quite arrogant impatience) "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206: (coolly) “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark,… and I didn’t land.”
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