How we met: ‘I thought she was just trying to flirt her way on to a packed flight!’

‘He’s my family, my best friend, my everything’ … Andrea with David in 2022. Photograph: Courtesy of Andrea and David

When the 2008 financial crisis hit, it wasn’t easy for David to find work. Hoping for an adventure, he moved to Mallorca for a job as an airport ramp agent. “I was the coordinator between the pilot and the ground staff, telling them when it was OK to deboard the passengers,” he says. “It was minimum wage but I was having so much fun.”

The following August, he bumped into Andrea, who had moved to Spain from her home country of Germany the previous year. “I was a flight attendant for Air Berlin and we had a small base there,” she says. “I spoke Spanish because I’d studied in Barcelona, so I got the job.”