“Thank you for flying with us, Mr. Messier. Enjoy the rest of your trip!”
Those were the words the flight attendant uttered as I got ready to step off my flight from Ottawa to Paris-Charles de Gaulle — on my way to Mumbai, India. Mind you, I was not sitting in First or Business Class. I was in the front row of Economy of a Boeing 787–900 Dreamliner.
Pretty standard patter, with one small difference. She included my name — something that NEVER happens on any airline.
That wasn’t the end of it.