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FREDERICTON — Air Canada is apologizing to passengers who found themselves rerouted late at night to Fredericton with nothing to eat — that is, until a WestJet pilot stepped in to buy them pizza.

The passengers were on a flight from Toronto to St. John’s, N.L. on Feb. 8 when bad weather forced the plane to be rerouted to New Brunswick.

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Passenger John Samms took to Twitter to say that an Air Canada employee announced it was impossible to get food at that hour.

Samms then tweeted: “Awkward but funny moment: @westjet guy walks in and says ‘hey guys I’m from Westjet and we do things differently, want some pizza?”‘

He said four or five pizzas were ordered.

Samms wrote that the Air Canada employee then offered $10 vouchers, but there was nowhere to use them.