An airline has taken a cheeky swipe at Prince Harry for claiming his wife Meghan bought a first-class ticket from Mexico to the UK for her dad Thomas Markle so that he could better avoid press intrusion.
In his new memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex alleged that the Duchess had purchased a ticket for her father through Air New Zealand, adding that it was ‘first class, booked and paid for by Meg’.
Detailing the incident, Prince Harry recalled: “We told him, leave Mexico right now: A whole new level of harassment is about to rain down on you, so come to Britain. Now.”
Air New Zealand has now denied that Thomas could have flown first from Mexico to the UK through their airline, claiming that such a flight doesn’t even exist.
Speaking with the New Zealand Herald, Air New Zealand gave the following statement: “We’ve never had flights between Mexico and the UK. And we only have Business Premier.”
The airline has now made a savage dig at Harry and Meghan via its Twitter account, with a tweet taking aim at the alleged inaccuracy.
The tweet reads as follows: “Introducing #SussexClass. Apparently coming soon.”
Responses to the tweet were mixed. While some declared they ‘loved’ the dig, making numerous puns about ‘spare’ seats, others regarded it as simply ‘petty’.
One person responded: “Wow, I had a really good impression of Air New Zealand until seeing this. Surprisingly petty. Gross.”
Another commented: “How unprofessional.”
A third joked: “And the amenities bag includes a tube of Elizabeth Arden cream. Oh yes, and an extra spare.”
Another report in Stuff NZ came out in defence of Prince Harry’s version of events, remarking that, up until the coronavirus pandemic, Air New Zealand used to run flights between Los Angeles and London.
As reported by this publication, the Duchess of Sussex could well have booked tickets through Air New Zealand from Mexico to London, with United Airlines (Air New Zealand’s Star Alliance partner) taking Thomas from Mexico to LA, where Air New Zealand would have then taken him onwards to Britain.
Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, has been the most anticipated book of the year – full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.
