Spinoff of First Car and/or Airline Threads

[RedAngie]

What was your very first airline flight (or any type of airplane trip)?

Mine was in June of 1968 when I was 7 years old. My parents and I flew from Philadelphia to Miami for a vacation. Pan Am airlines. Even though it was summer, my father wore a suit and tie and my mother and I wore our best summer dresses and hats. We might have even worn white gloves. And we probably brought sweaters aboard in case it got chilly from the AC.

I remember the flight attendant gave me a deck of Pan Am playing cards and a coloring book and crayons.

 

[maxaroni]

British Airways August 1969. 13 years old. My parents and I flew from JFK to Bermuda. Yup, mom and I in summer dresses and dad in a jacket and tie. It was not even a 2 hour flight, or just about 2 hours and we got full meals onboard. Breakfast on the way there and dinner on the way home. Probably had sweaters as well.

 

[MIGrandma]

Oh gosh, it was back in 1973 (or 1974?) when Mom and I rode to Florida with my grandparents right after Christmas, and we spent my Christmas vacation with them and then Mom and I flew home. I'm not even sure what airline it was, probably Delta or United I would imagine.

 

[BrianL]

The earliest I can remember was a flight to visit my Dad in Rhode Island on USAir. I was about 5 (1984). I remember that my sister and I were seated in the very front and we had like a full table that folded over itself. I can't ever remember seeing anything like that since. We were unaccompanied minors and the attendants really doted on us. I got to go on the flight deck and ask questions and stuff. It was so nice compared to today's air travel!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Oh heck it was mid 70's I was 15. Flew to Chicago to stay with my cousin.

 

[hereyago]

1968: C 130 Transport on way to Azores Islands. I was a baby so.....

 

[Marchand63]

Eastern airlines to guess where? Yup WDW! 1972 februar

 

[Gumbo4x4]

January 1985 STL to Washington National, we had to abort our landing just feet from touching down. I was 17.

 

[rastahomie]

Ozark Airways (or Airlines, not sure which), from Springfield, Illinois' Capital Airport to St. Louis, a 25-minute flight at the time and on that kind of aircraft, c. 1978. I was seven or eight. I'd always wanted to fly on a plane, and Grandma and mom surprised me with a trip on a little puddle-jumper. I thought it was SO cool! The pilot gave me little wings to wear on my shirt that Grandma bought just for the occasion, and the flight attendant served me a Coke in a glass! With ice! I felt like such a big shot!

 

[mamamary]

July 5, 1976 - I went with my parents and younger sister. We went to WDW (our first trip there). We flew Pan Am - it was either out of JFK or LaGuardia. We also got dressed up. My mom bought me new pants and a shirt - I'm assuming she did for my sister also.

 

[design_mom]

Shortly after Christmas, 1994. I was 22.

My boyfriend had proposed a few weeks earlier. My in-laws to be bought me a plane ticket so I could go to St. Louis to meet the extended family. (My father-in-law got transferred to our city when my DH was 1 year old, but all the rest of their family on both sides is still in STL.)

 

[E&Cmom]

It was the Summer I was 6 so July 1976. We went to Spain to visit my family there ( mom's side). We flew from Montreal to Madrid and then Madrid to Barcelona. I know part of the trip was on Air Iberia but not sure if both flight were.

 

[Hikergirl]

I was 8 or 9, we flew to Orlando to visit WDW

 

[wenrob]

I was 7 and my younger sister was 5, so 1975 ish. It was a court ordered visitation with my mom in Hawaii. My grandma (mom's mother) accompanied us. I don't remember anything about the flights really just this vaguely familiar woman draping us in candy leis and kissing us at the end. I have a photo somewhere, our hair was braided and we had those little leather purses that were popular back then so I suppose we were dressed up. I remember quite a bit about the trip, my sister doesn't remember it at all. I didn't board another plane until I was 22.

 

[mom2rtk]

Summer of 1980. Flew to Huntsville, AL for the National Speech and Debate tournament. Just me (my debate coach was meeting me there). All I remember is how disgusting that haze of smoke was in the back of the plane.

 

[Kellykins1218]

1987. I can't remember the airline but they did a weekend fare for $20 round trip. My mom & I flew from Cleveland to Boston to visit my brother & his wife who were stationed at South Weymouth NAS. Good memories from that trip....we went to see Plymouth Rock then decided to go to Kentucky Fried Chicken but it was burning down when we got there. Then I had homework and had to come up with a sales pitch for a product. I used the airplane's barf bag & we spent a good couple of hours cracking up as we came up with alternate uses for the "Handy Dandy Regurgitation Receptacle."I got the highest grade the teacher had ever given on the project because she said "If you can sell a barf bag, you can sell anything."

 

[BlueStarryHat]

1998, to WDW. Before that, I was so afraid of flying I took the train from Philadelphia to Orlando several times. It just so happened that I came aboard this trip at the last minute and hadn't been in on the planning. It was just, "you want to go, you have to fly." I was PETRIFIED. But it was my then 15-year-old cousin's first time flying too and she freaked out and started crying. Motherly instincts I didn't know I had kicked in and by the time I got her calmed down we were in the air, so I didn't panic. I'm still a *very* nervous flier, but I make myself get on that plane.

 

[kimblebee]

I was 2 and I went to Australia with my parents. We came home when I was 5 and we had my year old sister and my mom was very pregnant again. We came home via Figi and England so I had been around the world by the time I was five. Now, I can't remember the last time I left the city. It's very different to travel on your own dime LOL

 

[DisneyGuy]

My first flight was from JFK to Ireland (Dublin). I was 17 years old at the time. I think it was about 6 hours.

 

[dotfurio]

I don't know if it was my first, but my first memory of an airline flight was when I was about 4-5 and we were flying up north to visit my grandparents. I remember the stewardess gave me a plastic wings pin and some other trinkets. When we soared above the clouds I thought we were in heaven, lol.