Spinoff of First Car and/or Airline Threads

[powellrj]

1977, I was 17 and flew with my French class to France. We had to all dress up because our teacher had been a flight attendant and insisted

 

[Branflakes]

1977 I was 5 we flew from LAX to Honolulu, HI on TWA. I wore a Hawaiian sundress and cardigan. My dad flew in slacks and an Hawaiian shirt and jacket. It was so fancy

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I was probably 11. Flew from Philly to Buffalo with my little brother as an unassisted minor to visit my dad.

 

[Meriweather]

Los Angeles home after a visit to DL.
Took the bus down, but was getting tired.
No hotel or anything. Spent the night on the bus and another night in an airport.
18 years old. 1972

 

[bethbuchall]

The first one that I remember was when I was 6 (very early 1970s). I flew as an unaccompanied minor from home (Buffalo) to visit my grandparents in Florida. It was either Eastern or United. I flew every year to visit them after that until I was 15, and it was always one of those two airlines. I visited the cockpit and was given a little set of wings. A stewardess would check on me occasionally and escorted me out to my grandparents after everyone else deplaned. We were served a lunch that included a roll and a couple of pats of butter. I didn't like butter, but I knew that my grandfather did, so I saved those butter pats in my little purse. Yes, it was a melted mess by the time we reached my grandparents' apartment. Airplane travel definitely meant dressing up then.

Another time I flew with my father. They had him open his brief case for inspection, and my naked Barbie doll was on the very top. My father just about died from embarrassment at that one.

 

[indimom]

I've only flown three times, every time to Orlando.

1994. DH (fiancé at the time) and I spent a long weekend at MGM, Universal and Epcot.

2005. DH and I took our two kids to Disney for their first trip.

January, 2017. My 3 sisters and I celebrated a couple landmark birthdays at Disney and Universal.

 

[Kitty 34]

Air Jamaica to Jamaica when I was 21........Spring Beak!!

 

[Julie's Haircut]

It was spring break in 1980 when I was in college. Two friends skipped the last two days of classes and drove down to Florida. A third friend and I flew from Philly to Ft.Lauderdale a few days later to join them. Eastern Airlines. We all drove back together when the week was over.

 

[SallySkelington]

June 2002. I was 11 and I was flying with my sister, who was 17. We were headed to TX from NC to visit family for the summer. I don't remember much, except I getting hyper off of gummies.

 

[Planogirl]

I flew when I was about a year old. My mother and I flew from Amsterdam to Houston on KLM. I don't remember any of it.

 

[BLAZEY]

February 1984, Canadian Airlines. My dad had just been killed by a drunk driver the week before, I was 6.5. My Grandparent took my sister, mum and I to Disneyland to get away from all the stress.

 

[Bilberry]

The first time I was up in the air in a plane was when our neighbor took my father and I up in his single prop airplane. He was a pilot for a large airline. in his spare time he flew his small plane around the area for fun. I was likely around the age of 9 or possibly 10 at the time. The big thrill of the experience for me is that our neighbor let me take control of the plane. He would tell me which direction to fly and altitude to be at.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

Fall '97, I was hired to move a 72' hateras yacht from the coast up the river and the owner flew us back home on his private jet from Nashville to Mobile. The pilot even let me sit up front.

 

[Oreo Cookie]

First flight was January 1985 from JFK to London aboard Kuwait Airlines.

 

[ndelaware]

March 1976. Eastern Airlines L1011. PHL to MCO.

Went with my high school girlfriend to spend a week with her grandparents in Eustis. Spent a whole day at WDW!

Never figured out why there were more E-ticket rides than E-tickets in the booklet.

 

[MimiOfTwo]

I was 9. Flew as an unaccompanied minor. Sisters all married AF guys (they all relocated to their DH's hometown)and every summer one of them would take me home with them when they came for their summer visit. End of summer I'd fly home. I thought it was such an adventure. I never had any issues but there's no way I'd ever let my kid/grands do that lol.

 

[soccerdad72]

Probably would have been for our big family vacation to Orlando (including WDW). I think I was 16, so it would have been 1988. For whatever reason, I don't recall much about the flight, so I guess it must not have been anything special.

 

[Gracie09]

kindergarten going to disney. Back when they had a smoking section in the plane.

 

[FairestOfThemAll37]

When I was 6 weeks old to Hawaii-I obviously don't remember it lol.

 

[Kaytie]

1975, probably Eastern. Boston to Hartford to pick up a car. My mother offered to bring me to grandmother's funeral in 1967 so I could experience flying. I thought that wasn't a good reason, plus I had perfect school attendance at the time.

First car trip I remember was to the 1964 Worlds Fair.