Laura was on hand to greet Pat, 79, and Ray, 83, as they boarded their Tui flight to Palma at East Midlands airport last month, without a clue it would be Laura at the controls.
Both Pat and Ray have long encouraged Laura to pursue a career in aviation after her very first flying lesson in a simulator, which she received as an 18th birthday present.
She is one of Tui’s youngest pilots and is close to achieving the new step in her career of becoming a first officer.
Laura, said Tui, got her grandparents’ holiday off to a dream start with the “special moment they’ve been longing for since she started flying”.
