Qantas makes 78-year-old man give up business class seat for off-duty pilot on flight

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A 78-year-old man was forced to give up his business class seat on a recent Qantas flight so that an off-duty pilot could take his place.

Stephen Jones was sitting in the business class lounge at Melbourne airport with his wife on 3 September when he heard his name over the tannoy, he told Australian radio station 3AW.