“Katie Couric had fellow passengers aboard a New York-bound jet on the warpath this week when, as their plane was about to taxi to the runway, she got out of her seat and begged the pilot to allow one of her late-arriving producers to board,” Page Six reports. A passenger says the “diva-like antics” occurred on Wednesday’s 6:30 p.m. Delta Shuttle flight out of Washington, D.C. Couric “raced up the aisle with a cellphone to her ear and told an attendant she had to speak to the pilot right away. Couric was then allowed into the cockpit and convinced the pilot to delay the flight and reopen the door for her producer, Nicola Hewitt…”
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