A plane drew a heart in the sky for Valentine's Day

Last evening, a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330 took a heart-shaped flight path over the North Atlantic.

When you conduct a training flight in your recently delivered A330 on #ValentinesDay you draw a heart. That's the rule, right?

See playback of @VirginAtlantic’s ❤️at https://t.co/em1gPzhr22 pic.twitter.com/yJSZtrsRxv

— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 14, 2018

Flight-tracking website FlightRadar24 shared the plane’s flight path on Valentine’s Day. The VIR850P Virgin Atlantic airbus A330 took off from Gatwick Airport on a test flight.

Speaking to Business Insider, a Virgin spokeswoman said that the plane was heading to Cornwall and that was a small diversion to make the heart shape. There were no passengers on board, only crew.

This isn’t the first time pilots have been hopeless romantics, Flightradar24’s blog highlighted a few more examples, such as:

2015: Air Malta celebrated a marriage of two employees

2017: Cathay Pacific’s Community Day saw hearts over Hong Kong