The US is a big country. Important. Likes to flex its muscles. The US President flies on Air Force One.
The Netherlands is small. Influential. Likes to persuade. The Dutch cabinet shares a plane with the Queen. The plane has no name, not even a nick-name. There’s nothing written on the outside of the plane.
The Queen is at home, the prime minister took a commercial flight on his visit to Brazil, so Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen got dibs on the government plane to go to an international conference in Gaza.
And he took a few journalists with him. Including me.
I could get used to this. No waiting, no on-flight announcements, no rote reading of the safety procedures. Get on, take off, eat excellent food served in many courses. And chit-chat with the foreign minister.
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on Mar 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
I can’t decide whether you’re a lucky dog… or a freeloader quickly increasing your carbon footprint…