A MESSAGE FROM MICHAEL

From Aarhus to Zimbabwe, Marlene has stepped foot in places all around the world, and moreover, has touched the hearts and minds of good people everywhere she has gone.

This edition of Friis-Frame, the Official In-Flight Magazine of Fly Friis Airlines, is dedicated to Marlene’s five-decade journey. My own voyage with Marlene began over 25 years ago, and this cover depicts one of our first destinations – the original AJ Hackett bungy bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand. Marlene leapt off the bridge, in a swimmer’s-perfect swan dive, and my heart leapt right after her. We have been traveling together ever since.

As you read these pages, certain themes will emerge: Marlene’s humor, her passion, her intellect, and her penchant for evading arrest. But I think the overriding impression that you will get is that, over five decades and six continents, Marlene is a friend nonpareil, whose warmth, empathy, and loyalty is legendary around the world.

So, on behalf of Fly Friis Airlines, the Official Airline of The Royal Duchy of Friistikistan, and our highly-trained crew, including Pilot Kaj Friis-Hecht, and Chief Engineer and Pianist Dexter Friis-Hecht, I invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy your travels with Friis.

– MICHAEL HECHT