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A little girl on a long flight got some help from a kindly pilot in Omaha, who pulled off the airline equivalent of hitting the drive-thru.

Last month, 5-year-old Aisley Schatz was on a flight by herself from Los Angeles to Orlando, Florida, when the Southwest Airlines crew found out she was hungry.

So during a layover in Omaha, the pilot stepped off the plane, hit the food court at Eppley Airfield and bought the girl some KFC chicken strips and potato wedges.

“He went above and beyond,” said Natesha Schatz, the girl’s mom.

Schatz said her daughter, who had brought a few snacks with her on the flight, was returning to her home near Orlando after visiting grandparents.

Southwest allows children as young as 5 to travel by themselves as long the flight is nonstop or has a layover that does not require changing planes.

Schatz said other crew members also helped her daughter. One flight attendant provided her personal cellphone so the girl could make a video call to her mom during the Omaha layover.