Jet2 pilot flies daughter and Framlingham students to Iceland

An airline pilot had some special passengers aboard her plane when she flew her daughter, classmates and teachers to Iceland for a school trip.

Marnie Munns, from Cambridge, captained the Jet2 flight from Stansted Airport to Reykjavik with her 17-year-old daughter Lillian and about 30 others from Framlingham College, Suffolk, on board.

She managed to swap a shift to make sure she could be in the cockpit for the flight on Monday.

“It isn’t every day you get to go to Iceland, and it certainly isn’t every day your mum flies you there,” said Lillian.

Munns said it was a “huge privilege” to be at the controls of the Airbus A321neo with her daughter and her fellow pupils on board.

She had initially planned on surprising geography student Lillian on the morning of the flight but had to come clean during a parents’ evening.

“When I first told her I was doing it, she couldn’t believe that I was actually going to do it and had followed through on it,” said Munns.

“Pilots will try to fly their family because it is such a unique experience and it is just a real pleasure, so it was nice to have a really lovely, personal day out.”