This Famous Airline Was Presented With an 83-Year-Old Ticket. This Is How It Reacted
一家著名航空公司怎么处理一张来自83年前的机票呢？
You might not expect, then, an airline to respect such ancient concepts as nostalgia and honor.
当然，你也不会想到航空公司还会那么怀旧和重视荣誉这样的古老概念。
nostalgia：n. 怀旧;乡愁;对往事的怀恋;怀乡病
Yet here's the story of a man who won a contest in 1935.
然而，这是一个人在1935年赢了一个比赛的故事。
Arnold Neahus was only 7 at the time, but his prize was a precious one -- a flight around Amsterdam on KLM.
虽然阿诺德 尼哈斯当时只有7岁，而他却得了个了不起的奖品 — 乘坐荷兰皇家航空公司的飞机绕阿姆斯特丹飞行。
Unfortunately, Neahus couldn't go on the flight, because his sister had scarlet fever, which is highly infectious.
不幸的是，因为妹妹得了猩红热，传染性很强，尼哈斯不能上飞机。
scarlet fever：猩红热
He did, though, keep the letter informing him that he'd won. He even showed it off to his family.
不过，他还是保留了这封告知他赢了的信函。他还向家人炫耀。
Cut to 83 years later. Arnold Neahus is now Grandpa Nol, but KLM still flies propeller planes.
时间到了83年后。阿诺德 尼哈斯现在已经成了诺尔爷爷了，但荷兰皇家航空公司的螺旋桨飞机还依旧在蓝天翱翔。
propeller plane：螺旋桨飞机
Well, it did for him. The Dutch airline heard about Neahus's great win, a spokesman told me, because his granddaughter wrote to the board of directors. 好吧，是为了他而飞翔。荷兰航空公司一位发言人告诉我，因为他的孙女给董事会写了信，他们知道了尼哈斯赢得的大奖。
The airline, in a spurt of kindness and wisdom, decided to honor the ticket for his 90th birthday.
出于善意和智慧，航空公司决定在他九十岁生日之际兑现这张机票。
Oh, I know this is marketing. It still shows there are little hearts beating in the depths of airline organizations.
好的好的，我当然明白这是为了市场营销，但这还是表明了在庞大的航空公司机构里还是多少有些温情的。
Why, as my colleague Bill Murphy Jr. reported, United Airlines recently honored a Forever travel voucher from 1998.
为什么这么说呢，我的同事Bill Murphy Jr.曾经报道说，联合航空公司最近履行了一个1998颁发的永久旅行券。
honor：尊敬，给以荣誉
In the KLM case, grandpa took his 7-year-old great-grandson Jagger with him for his prize flight.
在荷兰皇家航空公司这件事上，爷爷带着他7岁的曾孙贾格尔一起登上了这次赢来的飞行。
The airline even picked Neahus and Jagger up in a Ford Model A Tudor car that was built in 1928.
这家航空公司甚至还特意派了一辆1928年Ford T Tudor 型号汽车到家迎接尼哈斯和贾格尔。
The plane, however, postdated Neahus's contest win. It was a 1944 Dakota DC-3.
但是执行这次飞行的飞机是在尼哈斯获胜得奖之后生产的。这是一架1944年的Dakota DC-3。
postdate：填迟…的日期
With a simple gesture, though, the airline garnered positive feelings toward its brand. 但是通过一个简单的举动，这家航空公司赢得了人们对其品牌的好感。
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