Laughing passengers join in as stewardess starts pillow fight at 20,000ft

They say the Germans have no sense of humour.

But as this video shows, when it comes to flying at least, they have finally learned to lighten up.

A spontaneous pillow fight broke out on a Lufthansa flight as a stewardess handed out the complimentary pillows.



Rather than order everyone to stop she joined in and could not stop grinning as as she threw the white cushions around.

The passengers responded by throwing them back before an all-out pillow war across the cabin broke out to whoops and shrieks of joy.

As the pillow fight ended and the stewardess ran off to the galley where a colleague pretended to haul her to safety, applause broke out and passengers rocked back and forth with laughter and slapped their thighs.

The impromptu incident took place at 20,000ft onboard the Lufthansa flight LH687 from Tel-Aviv to Frankfurt earlier this month.

Lufthansa is the German national airline and the economy class cabin was filling up with dozens of French tourists at the time.