Her pilot father promised her a ride from the airport. Then he surprised her by flying the plane home

When Addison Stock asked her pilot father for a ride home from the airport, she knew he’d come through.

“When he shows up, it’s like, ‘Okay, I’m taken care of,” Stock tells CNN Travel. “That’s how he’s been my whole life, he’s always been the type to show up.”

But she couldn’t have predicted just how far her father would go this time.

It was early August, Stock was returning from her “perfect” honeymoon in Cancún, Mexico, with her new husband, Quinn. The couple expected Stock’s father, Southwest Airlines captain John Arvin, to meet them with his car at arrivals in Phoenix, Arizona.

First, though, the couple had to endure a packed flight home. They’d forgotten to check in the day before — too busy enjoying their final day of vacation — and now finding themselves at the back of the lin