Henrick Vartanian
Madonna’s status is moving away from beloved pop icon to simply annoying spoiled has-been, at jet speed.
Reported by UK’s Daily mail, passengers on a Virgin Atlantic flight from New York to London Heathrow were not amused when they found out that they all have to wait for hours, inside the aircraft, on the tarmac, but not pop-star Madonna who was given a VIP treatment by the Virgin Atlantic crew, and led off the plane before everyone else.
The flight was originally delayed in the US for 90 minutes and was then diverted from Heathrow to Stansted.
Finally in Stansted (where most of UK’s transport was delayed due to a blizzard), all passengers found out they had to wait again, for three hours, on the tarmac – all but apparently not the “ma-ma-ma-material girl” – a grown wo-ma-ma-ma-man, if she ever accepted it.
According to fellow passengers in first class, Madonna and her entourage were the first group to be allowed off the aircraft and whisked away by a bus, two hours before everyone else.
One passenger speaking out about the preferential treatment saying: “It was bad enough having to wait, but then she started doing her yoga in the aisles. After about an hour, a bus came along and took her and her party of about 15 off the plane.” Explained the unnamed passenger.
“It seemed a little unfair — it’s not like she is the President or anything. The rest of us all had to wait for another two hours.
‘If the plane had taken off on time, it would have made it to Heathrow an hour before the runways were closed at 11.30am and so would never have needed to be diverted.” The passenger added.
Virgin issued a statement saying it was common for “business and first-class passengers to disembark first.” Well, in this case, there seems to have been an invisible new category beyond first class. Let’s call it “Madonna class!?” – and we use the word “class” loosely.