At AMS one evening, about to go to Manchester, when KLM VIP section ring. "Your Prime Minister will be down in five minutes". Great, no notice of this, and we all know said PM always liked a bit of fuss. Turns out it was the Deputy PM. We were a one-class aircraft, so kudos for travelling with the great unwashed. On arrival MAN, a limo met the aircraft, presumably to take said VIP home. What puzzled me was that the gentleman concerned lived in Hull, and we had a schedule to Humberside which would have been much more convenient. OK, you can't expect ministers to know everything, but at the time he was Minister for Transport!