What Was The Very FIRST Airline You Ever Flew On?

[arwalden]

Discussion: How old were you? (Or how long ago was it?) Where were you flying from/to?




I flew for the first time on Southern Airways around 1970. I was 10 and traveled from Valdosta, GA to Augusta GA on a "prop-jet". I was flying alone and I remember how attentive the stewardesses were. In honor of my first flight, they gave me a lapel-pin (metal, not plastic) with some official looking flight wings on it.

[Seneca]

1. PSA

(Pacific Southwest Airlines, which was bought by USAirways some years ago).

September 1968, from San Diego to San Jose, 15 months old.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. US Air.

It was also the last time I flew. I'm not real keen on flying.

[Rick Myers]

3. United

age 13, 1970, a 737 Youngstown Oh to O'Hare!!! I joined the Air Force. Do the math.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. North Central, I think.

I was about 10, Minneapolis to (I think) Lincoln, NE, on (I think) a Convair. I don't remember the particulars, just the flying part, which was cool.

[enlightenment]

5. Something with USAF on the side

1958 -- I was 6 months old.

[kid a]

6. republic

[leftofthedial]

7. MAC

if that counts as an airline.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Pan Am, New York to London, 1967

My whole family went to Europe that summer, and in those days, you could buy a ticket to one European city and get free extra flights between the other cities on your route.

Our route was New York (nearly the only place you could fly to Europe from)--> London--> Oslo--> Trondheim-->Copenhagen-->Hannover--> (drive around Germany and Austria visiting relatives)-->Cologne-->Paris-->Amsterdam-->New York. In addition to Pan Am, we flew on British European Airways, Braathens, SAS, Lufthansa, Air France, and KLM.

On all the airlines, the seats were five across, two on one side, three on the other, with plenty of leg room. The food was actually GOOD--including my first ever filet mignon on the flight from Amsterdam to New York. The flight attendants pampered us so well that they could have been Japanese. :-) When our flight from London to Oslo was delayed two hours, the airline took us off into a side room in Heathrow and fed us tea and sandwiches.

Those were the glory days of international air travel.

[Rowdyboy]

9. Delta....1977....from Columbus Mississippi to Atlanta Georgia

to see my former roommate. Damn, that was a fun trip.

[tyedyeto]

10. It was 1960 and at 8 years old....

I have no idea what airline it was. Just remember it was San Francisco - Chicago.

[HuskiesHowls]

11. Private Plane, just toured the area,

it helped that my 4th grade teacher's husband owned a flying service and they took all the kids for a flight, every year!!

Love those small planes!!

[4morewars]

12. KLM

Royal Dutch Airlines, also 1970, I was seven. My Mom and my 4 brothers and I flew out of JFK and into Shannon, Ireland. We also got metal wings AND ice cream ! Also on the same flight was Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes) He was not known as a writer at the time, but was a semi-celebrity in the NYC Irish-American community.

[evlbstrd]

64. A trip to Ireland and Frank McCourt?!

Lucky!

[In_The_Wind]

13. Delta

I was 7 and I flew alone from Chattanooga Tennessee to Atlanta Georgia.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. United.

My junior year high school trip to DC...1966...from Chicago to Baltimore. To visit DC. Then we headed by bus north to NYC. Flew home via Newark also on United.

My first time on a plane. It was a Catholic girls high school, we HAD to wear hats on the plane. I wore an old hot of my mothers..a big bow thing that fit over the head and had previously had a veil...but removed it. It was like a big headband, but appeased the nuns.

[arwalden]

16. What? NO GLOVES??

Harlot!

[greatauntoftriplets]

18. No....

:evilgrin:

[burythehatchet]

15. Pan Am (most probably never heard of it)

from New Delhi to New York. I was 10 and was immigrating to the US with my family. 35 years ago.

[greatauntoftriplets]

20. Pan Am is my favorite airline...

of all time.

[brook]

80. American.

NYC to Mexico City.Dad's company was transferring us there. Have a picture somewhere of my parents and I ready to board the flight. Mom and I were wearing gloves, hats, furs. The planes had names in those days too. Red carpets, etc. Flying was an 'event'. About 4 years later I became an American stew - based in Dallas on The Mexico route. Umpteen years ago.

[Reverend_Smitty]

17. Eastern

Around 1990 from Miami to Philly or Newark...I can't remember which I was only about 6 at the time

[trackfan]

19. World Airways - 1980. The last time I flew was 1983. I shan't fly again...

if I can possibly avoid it.

[Radio_Lady]

61. Do you have a fear of flying? Or were you in an accident that year?

Just curious. I was a "fearful flyer" for years -- took the train from New York to Miami, Florida with my infant daughter in 1968 rather than fly!

In my 40s, my new husband bought me the U. S. Air "Fearful Flyer" class. It was nine weeks -- once a week -- at Boston's Logan Airport. We learned relaxation exercises and a tape to use before and during take-off. The program was run by a woman -- perhaps a psychologist or trained in some way -- Carol Stouffer. I still have the tape.

A former pilot, age just over 65 when forced retirement was at 65, spoke to us about the noises we hear -- how safe flying really is -- and, of course, the comment I've heard many times since -- "Pilots are quite afraid of one thing before a flight -- that's the drive to the airport!" (Emphasis is, of course, on the greater number of car crashes than air crashes.)

We received a wonderful book on the subject, which I eventually donated to a local library. We went up in the air control tower and watched them work with planes in the sky. We did an "aborted takeoff" and then a graduation flight on November 9th, (my mother's birthday) from Boston to Albany, NY and back (we didn't land in Albany). It was a beautiful, cold and clear night and each of us got to sit in the co-pilot's seat and see the view out the front. When we got back to Logan, we had champagne and cake and received a "graduation certificate". It was a wonderful night.

Now I've flown comfortably all over the world -- France, Spain, England, Scotland, Israel, Egypt, Hong Kong, Thailand, and throughout the U.S. I'm really grateful for all the people who helped me overcome this fear. Still working on anxiety on smaller planes, but did manage some flights recently from Seattle to Portland in choppy weather, and in Hawaii as well as San Francisco to L.A. on a HOT day when the temperature in the cabin must have been in the 90s!

[trackfan]

93. Basically fear.

But not a panic-type fear. I was never actually scared while I was flying. Every flight I was ever on was smooth and uneventful. After the last time I flew, I had every intention of flying again, if the occasion were to arise. After a few years, however, I just decided I didn't like the idea of it any more, all the arguments to the contrary notwithstanding.

Some time later, when I met my future wife, I was afraid she might think I was some kind of a nut because I didn't fly.
Imagine my delight and relief when I learned that she had come to the same conclusion vis-à-vis flying as I had!

[Radio_Lady]

127. Well, if you are both in agreement, then sit back, relax, and enjoy

the car, RV, bus, or train. But, regrettably, they won't get you to some amazing places "across the pond" as quickly as if you fly.

Then, again, there's ship cruising! I love it, but couldn't get over seasickness, which has basically capsized my love of the ocean. I can look at it, swim in it, but not boat on it!!!!

We all have our limitations.........


In peace,

Radio Lady

[doc03]

21. Piedmont

Flew out of Wheeling WV to Washington National for a job interview in 1966. It was a small plane it may have seated 20 people. The Stewardess was probably in her 50's and we were served a bag of Beer-nuts for our lunch. I was 18.

[Emops]

22. An Air Force C-141

on an orientation flight, we took off and landed at Wright-Patterson AFB here in Dayton, Ohio. We ended up flying somewhere over central Quebec.

I was 17 at the time, and in the five years since, I haven't been on an airplane a second time.

[autorank]

23. TWA Constellation

This was an amazing aircraft, just beautiful. When I was six, my parents started flying me from Northern California to LA to visit relatives. Put me in a suit, pinned my uncle's name to the jacket, and had a talk with the stewardess (that's all there were back then). I was well taken care of and frequently taken to the cockpit to meet the pilot and see all the cool gadgets. I kid you not! I remember it all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

[arwalden]

25. Yep... When I First Started Flying, People Dressed Very Business-Like

... it was an EVENT and everyone wanted to look nice and wore their Sundy-best.

[CanuckAmok]

28. I miss that formality.

Although looking at extras in seventies movies with airport scenes, maybe we're better off with yoga pants and hoodies.

[autorank]

30. Yep, wore suits until I was about 11-12. Nattily attired, ready for

action in the cockpit, no running around the plane or making noise ("Children are to be seen and not heard" was the motto).

Also, I never ran into any one as young as I on any flight until I was about 8-9.

I did start to worry when my parents wanted to ship me in a wooden crate on a transport. Thought that was a bit edgy but dad was "lovable but gruff."

[Radio_Lady]

58. Yes, we were fashionable in those days -- women even wore hats and gloves!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

41. I saw a Constellation fly over two weeks ago.

It was at the air show at Andrews AFB the weekend before Memorial Day. I heard the unmistakable sound of piston engines running wide open. I thought at first it was a boat on the Potomac with twin 350 V8s, but the sound was coming from above. I looked up, and there it was. It was so handsome. I ran outside and watched it as it disappeared into the low clouds, headed somewhere west.

It really made my day. I was so glad to see flying. I guess I could search a little to see which plane it was specifically.

I flew on a Constellation only once, on the Easter Air Shuttle between Washington National Airport and New York's LaGuardia. I believe they lasted in that service until February 1968 or so.

[autorank]

46. WOW, 1968. I flew on it in the 50's. Great, thanks

[mahatmakanejeeves]

55. 1968 - bad year

When the Connies were retired from the Air Shuttle, Eastern took out a two-page ad in the front section of the Washington Post to mark their passing. It was a full-frontal view of a Connie, with several kind words about how much they would be missed. I feel that this was around Valentine's Day. I'd have to hit the microfilm machine at the library to verify that.

[CanuckAmok]

26. Oh, dear...this dates me:

BOAC: British Overseas Air Carrier (predecessor of British Airways).

I was quite young, probably 6 or 7, from Toronto to London (refuel at Montreal!) on a Boing 707.

That was back in the days when airlines were completely service-obsessed. I was invited to see the cockpit ("hey, whadda you know, Scraps is a boy!"), and was given a "Junior Jet Club" kit, including a pair of metal wings lapel pin, and a logbook. I still have the wings, somewhere.

[DS1]

27. British Airways, 1980, I was 7 on a Trans-Atlantic flight, and got to

take a tour of the cockpit. It was a great time.

[peekaloo]

29. Delta

1978

Tampa to San Diego

[Dr.Phool]

31. Northwest Orient (Now just Northwest)

Cleveland to Chicago on May 19, 1969. Headed for Navy boot camp.

[Demonaut]

32. BOAC, flew to the US when I was small, about 1967, gave away wings too

[Left Is Write]

33. Northwest. 28. 1994.

For a while there after that, I was flying off somewhere several times a year.

I used to enjoy flying. Now I have developed an irrational fear of flying. I haven't flown since I was pregnant with my son four years ago.

[doc03]

34. This wasn't my first but in 1970 after doing Army time

in W.Germany, I flew home on something called Saturn Airways. This plane had pieces of ceiling panels hanging down and about half the lights were burnt out I still can't believe we survived a 12 hour flight in that thing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. Allegheny Airlines

IN the Fall of 1961 or 1962, I think, just after my dad started working there. I would have been in the sixth or seventh grade. We flew just to say we did, from DCA (Washington National) to Philadelphia and back. We came back after dark, so you could see the flames from the exhaust. The plane was a Martin 202. It was not pressurized. Of course, we were invited in the cockpit. I suppose Allegheny had gone to the new paint scheme by that time.

Allegheny Martin 202 at Pittsburgh, in the new paint scheme, 1961.

How about that Capital Airlines DC-3 in the background? My father worked for Capital until the United merger. The caption identifies the Martin as a 202A, but I don't know how that differs from the 202, which is the aircraft in the second picture.

Here's the old paint scheme, in 1960.

[nuxvomica]

40. That looks like the plane I flew on the first time

If memory serves me, I was around 9 or 10 and we flew from Glens Falls to Washington, DC, and back on one of those prop jobs. My whole family went on a tour of all the major sites. We dined at Duke Zeibert's and spent about a half-an-hour with Bobby Kennedy at his office. There hasn't been passenger service out of Glens Falls for decades now and that's too bad.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

47. Glens Falls

Sounds like a town that would have been served by Mohawk orginally. I could look it up, but....

I have an Airfix model plane with Mohawk decals. Can't this minute recall what it is. Old age, you know. Not a Concorde, that's for sure.

[nuxvomica]

48. To be more precise, it was Warren County Airport, NY

Now I'm trying to remember if it was Mohawk or Allegheny. I've flown both. But that picture you linked to looked like the one.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

52. Allegheny had Convairs too

340 and 580. The 580 was a dragster. Took off so fast.

Gee, what was Mohawk flying? Let me see.... Go to http://www.airliners.net/ and do a photo search. Mohawk was flying Convairs, F-227s and so forth. My Airfix model is of a BAC-111. They used to fly into DCA. I remember how loud they were. They'd never meet the current noise regulations.

[Cooley Hurd]

101. Allegheny was my first airline, as well...

Flew from SYR to DCA on a BAC-111 like this one:

IIRC, it was the summer of 1975...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

111. Allegheny BAC-111

It would have been acquired from Mohawk as a result of that merger.

The Allegheny-Mohawk merger occurred in ((Googling)) 1972.

Google for Mohawk Airlines

Edited to ask: were those Allegheny's first jets, or did they already own some DC-9s?

[Initech]

36. It was either American or TWA.

Cant remember, I was four years old at the time.

[Fiona]

37. Pan Am

from NYC to Paris when I was a teen.

[Blue_In_AK]

38. My first flight was on TWA

In 1955 from Dayton to Denver. I was eight years old and was traveling alone to be with my father and new stepmother who had moved to Colorado before me. It was a prop plane back then and took over 8 hours.

PS - I got the cockpit tour and pin also. AND my grandmother got to come on the plane before we took off to make sure I was all settled and to kiss me good-by. Try that nowadays..................

[Wapsie B]

39. Ozark Airlines

from Cedar Rapids to Oklahoma City. This was in '81.

[RobbinsdaleDem]

42. Western Airlines

I was living in San Diego with my sailor hubby, and I needed to fly home to Minnesota to visit my sick grandfather. That was in 1972 when I was 21-years-old.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

82. Hey, Robbinsdale Dem, have you

checked out the Minnesota Forum under State Forums yet?

[RobbinsdaleDem]

83. Yup.

I've checked it out, but I haven't posted there yet. Actually, I'd been reading posts on DU for a long, long time before I registered. I really love DU!

[flamingyouth]

115. Me too - I remember their ads "the ooooooonly way to fly"

I was about four and we went down to San Francisco. It was 1972 or '73 at the time. :hi:

[SW FL Dem]

43. I think it was American

from Phoenix to Cleveland in 1976 when I was headed off to college.

[TrogL]

44. BOAC - Toronto to London Heathrow

Yes, I'm old.

[democracyindanger]

45. Japan Airlines

I was 3. My grandmother had purchased a kiddie harness to keep me from running around the cabin. Didn't have to use it--the threat of it was enough.

[GreenPartyVoter]

49. Eastern and Piedmont

[KeepItReal]

50. TWA...

To Europe and back. Nice trip.

[xmas74]

51. No clue.

But I was a baby and we were flying to meet up w/ my dad. I have been told that we were going to LA to meet him since he just got back from Korea.
Probably one of the old standards like a TWA or something like that. No clue.

[kskiska]

53. A prop from NY-San Juan, PR

It was in 1960, one of the last props (don't remember the airline). It was a honeymoon trip and the prop was cheaper than a jet, but it sure took a long time, and we got to watch the red sparks fly out of the engines at night.

Service was terrific back then when the "stewardi" wore neat uniforms and served real meals.

[DELUSIONAL]

54. Aloha airlines -- I was 9 yr old.

[Robeson]

56. It was either Eastern or American Airlines.....

....I can't remember now. As a kid, though, I always thought Braniff planes were cool, because back then they were different colors!

[Radio_Lady]

57. I think it was Delta from Miami to Atlanta, then National from ATL

to El Paso, TX, then American Airlines to Los Angeles to visit my grandmother. I must have been eight to ten years old and I went with my mother. I'm sure these were all propeller-driven planes (not jets) -- very noisy and lots of vibration. The landing in El Paso was over steep mountains (or so it seemed) and I was pretty scared!

I got my wings pin from AA and wrote to the President of the airlines to thank him. He wrote back to me, too -- I think his name was W. (something) Smith. It must have been in the late 40s or early 50s.

[Kool Kitty]

The first flight that I took was

from Kennedy Airport to Heathrow in London, and the airline was TWA.

[fleabert]

59. I think it was southwest airlines...i was four and flew alone!

my mom had to twist a few arms to get me on a direct flight to see my dad. That would have made it 1977

[borlis]

60. Eastern Airlines

Chicago to Orlando.1977. I was in 6th grade. I will never forget this. I used to get soooo motion sick when I was a kid. My mom used to give me prescription liquid dramamine that tasted really bad. My dad kept telling me it was all in my head when I was concerned about getting sick flying. So I didn't take anything. I got so sick on that flight. As we were making the final approach to the ground I filled up not 1 but 2 airline barf bags!!! Talk about embarrassing! To this day I still take dramamine before flying.

[hayu_lol]

65. American Airlines DC-6

Flying from LA to San Antonio/Lackland AFB for basic. Was 18 at the time.

[City Lights]

99. Boy, I don't remember that.

I knew our first flight was to Orlando, but those :puke: details have been permanently blocked from my memory. :evilgrin: I do remember the :puke: bucket we kept in the car on driving trips, though. Remember how many times I had to lift up my shirt to cool off my "hot stomach?" :7

[borlis]

100. Ha Ha Ha

I also remember that as the youngest child in our family I had to sit in the middle. Whenever I would lean forward to talk to mom or dad or have mom pour me some water from the water jug, when I would go to lean back there were always legs stretched out across my area. Then when I complained you would say "well you moved." :mad:

[City Lights]

103. Boo-hoo.

I also frequently stuck up for you when others bullied you. :P

[borlis]

104. I know you did. Thanks.

I wonder if cousin Dean remembers the bloody nose you gave him defending me?

[City Lights]

109. I bloodied his nose and broke his glasses with one punch.

I think he got the message though.

[CottonBear]

118. 1963. USA to Germany. I was about 3 months old.

My dad got drafted into the Army when I was 6 weeks old. After training with the 101st Airborne in Ft. Campbell, KY, the army was kind enough to ship our car, furniture and belongings to Germany where dad, now a Captain, would posted as an army surgeon. Dad flew ahead of us. Mom and I followed on a separate flight.

[evlbstrd]

62. Braniff Airlines. 1966.

My mom worked for them for a while. For my tenth birthday, she arranged a trip for the two of us to Denver to visit my uncle (her brother, who was a Continental pilot) in Denver. The "stewardesses" had a special meal and a birthday cake ready for me.
And they had some pretty edgy advertising, too. I recall a teevee ads that featured Salvador Dali and Keenan Wynn, but I can't find them.

[yvr girl]

63. Wardair

from Vancouver to Hawaii.

It was wonderful. The top floor was set up like a lounge. I was up there being the life of the party, even though I was only 10. I got to go into the cockpit too.

[LaPera]

66. TWA 12 SF to NY

[GalleryGod]

69. Me Too! Coming home after the "Summer of Love"

I didn't live "in" The Haight..but my banker Uncle and Executive Aunt lived close by...near the famous Golden Gate Park:hippie:

[AntiCoup2K4]

67. The Hughes Airwest "top banana"

1979. I was 13, and flew to Tucson for the summer.

The airline would go out of business a couple years later, a victim of Reagan's deregulation of the airline industry.

[carpetbagger]

68. National Airlines.

The one with the cool orange-yellow colors that shouted out "welcome to the 1970's". New York to Florida, on my first carpetbagging trip.

[Neshanic]

91. Another National L1011. Went to Disneyworld.

[GOPisEvil]

70. Pan Am - Athens to Frankfurt.

I was 2 years old. Somewhere in my vast collection of stuff, I still have the toy 747 they gave me.

[noonwitch]

71. Republic in 1982, before it became Northwest

It sucked, too. We flew from Chicago to San Francisco. The way back, our flight was overbooked and we got put on an American flight, that was so much better. The stewards and stewardesses were friendlier, the luggage was handled better and the food was better. I haven't been on a plane since 1984-I hate flying, not because I'm afraid of heights, I don't like the confinement aspect. If I'm anywhere east of the Rockies, I prefer to drive and see the landscape.

[Hugin]

72. TWA... Howard would be so happy.

Might've even marked the occasion by watching
"Ice Station ZEBRA".

Who knows!

;)

[supernova]

73. Eastern Airlines

I seem to remember for many years, Eastern was the only airline at RDU.

[sniffa]

74. i've never fLown

[xultar]

75. Southern Airways! My mom worked for them.

[CitrusLib]

76. Pan Am. It was my 5th birthday and we flew to Frankfurt, Germany

Can't remember where the flight originated. Somewhere in Texas since we were stationed at Fort Bliss at the time.

My son's first trip was from Manchester, NH to Atlanta, GA when he was 4 months old. GREAT flyer.

[Midlodemocrat]

77. A charter flight to France from JFK. I was 15.

[peacebuzzard]

78. National to Charleston AFB then a military charter constellation to Brazil

I was 7 in 1959, dad was retiring after 20 years as a lifer w/ AF and he was taking my mom, a Brazilian, and myself and 2 sisters home to Brazil-Rio de Janeiro. I arrived speaking only English and basically stayed until I graduated from high school.

[progmom]

79. KLM

from Toronto to Amsterdam. I was 6.

[bertha katzenengel]

81. Reno Air. 1997 or '98. From LAX to Reno, for job training. I was 34-35.

:bounce:

[sister_rosa_refried]

84. The Wright Brothers

Sister's an old hag.

[arwalden]

89. I'm Guessing...

No in-flight movie? No cocktails? No peanuts?

[mtnester]

85. Eastern - from Columbus (OH) to Tampa FL

I was 18

[sakabatou]

86. Delta

[Lavender Brown]

87. Alitalia

from JFK to Rome Leonardo da Vinci, when I was 15.:)

[SnohoDem]

88. Southwest Airlines

back in the days of flight attendants in hot pants, fifty cent beer, and three or four stops between Houston and Albuquerque.

[crispini]

90. My father tells me that when I was a baby,

he and my mom took me for a ride in a glider and I threw up all over the place. :evilgrin: Since he is a Delta pilot, I'm sure it was Delta, and I'm also sure I was too small to remember. I've spent an enormous amount of time on planes.

[Lauri16]

92. TWA

1973,I was 8. NY (LaGuardia) to Oklahoma.

[jayfish]

94. Piedmont Or Eastern.

I can't remember exactly which. It was from Grand Rapids, Mi to DC in 1976 or 77.

Jay

[amandabeech]

95. Blue Goose or Severed Duck, A/K/A North Central.

North Central was one of the predecessors to the current Northworst.

It was 1965 and I was 10, going from Muskegon, MI, to Chicago O'Hare to visit my aunt and her family. The plane was a Convair, which could ditch safely in any cornfield in the Midwest. We all got dressed up in our Sunday best.

[Baaad Puppet]

96. PSA

Oakland to Burbank, circa 1970. Every jet in PSA's fleet "smiled".

[CaliforniaPeggy]

121. Hi there, Baaad Puppet!

WELCOME TO DU! You'll get quite a ride here from all us crazy DU'ers! Enjoy your trip...



:hi:

[ksilvas]

97. Fly the stinky skys,

Flew from Puerto Rico to Coco Beach Florida on a military transport plane.
We stopped twice to drop supplies off at various small Caribbean isles on the way.
After each stop they fumigated the whole plane, while we were in it with cans
of military graded insecticide. At the tender age of 6, I vomited my cereal all over my feet
and continued my journey.
Ah the life of a military brat.

[AlienGirl]

98. MTA

From Chicago to Mexico City. I was in high school.

Tucker

[Cannikin]

102. Southwest, when they first started serving Little Rock.....

They offered fares as low as $30 bucks, so the family and I took a trip to Dallas

[ProfessorGAC]

105. Probably United

First biz trip. Never flew before i started flying for business. This would have been about 1976 or 1977. Flew from Chicago to Vancouver. Smaller plane to Regina. Then a little plane to Saskatoon. The first plane was probably United the other two were probably Canadian Air.

Since then, i fell like i've been 200 airlines, but it's probably not quite that high a number.
The Professor

[malmapus]

106. Delta

Easy since my dad worked with them. I don't remember the first time I flew (since I pretty much have flown all my life). But yeah we would always fly whats called non-rev standby. I recall a few times in traveling with my dad we actually watched the flight we thought we'd get on pull out lol. Then it was off to find another way back home to Georgia =)

EDIT this woulda been in the mid / late 70s with my first flight

[aeolian]

107. Air Canada

Buffalo->Toronto->London. I was 7.

Yep, my first flight was over the Atlantic. :)

[Greyhound]

108. I was 8 and it was

on Western "The only way to fly" (voice of Jim Baccus)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

122. Hey there, greyhound1966!

WELCOME TO DU! Enjoy your stay in this big progresssive, contentious town!



:hi:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

110. Varig. I was 21. Rio-São Paulo. One-hour flight.

In a Lockheed Electra like these ones:

[arwalden]

113. With That Blunt Snub-Nose On The Plane...

... it reminds me of a WWII bomber.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

117. Now that you mention it

There WAS a WWII bomber named Electra. By Lockheed. Must be close cousins.

[One_Life_To_Give]

112. Pan Am

JFK to SFO

[terrya]

114. 1984 -April. Dallas to Chicago. On American

[truebrit71]

116. Monarch Airlines - London to Athens

1974....

[hyphenate]

119. I don't know

what airline it was, but I was 7 years old.

I had ended up with chicken pox and measles at the same time (yes, I was polka-dotted from head to toe) and couldn't go to Canada when my mom and my siblings went. So I got to fly by myself. I had to change over in Halifax on the way to Sydney, and the stewardess then was taking care of me, making sure I got on the plane correctly.

When I got to Sydney, my mom and uncle picked me up.

While I was raring to go at that point, my siblings were all confined to bed because they got sick after I had. :)

[Left_Winger]

120. Eastern Airlines

[plcdude]

123. Mohawk

Airlines if any one remembers that one.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

124. It had to have been Pacific Southwest Airways...PSA...

The planes with the smile on the front. We were flying from SoCal to NoCal to visit relatives up north with our small children. It was in the 1970's, and I was in my 30's.

My first airplane flight (non-commercial) was in a 2 seater private plane with an early boyfriend. I was scared and excited all at once. I love to fly; I do NOT like take-offs and landings...

[nevergiveup]

125. TWA prop out of St. Louis 40 years ago.....I was 16

[NoPasaran]

126. MATS Constellation

From Japan to the States when I was a baby.

The first flight i remember was a United DC-8 from San Francisco to Denver. Had to be 1963.

[donheld]

128. Frontier from Scottsbluff NE to Denver

[ronnykmarshall]

129. United

It was a 737. I flew from Bakersfield to Los Angeles and it took about 20 mins. Then I flew to San Diego on PSA.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

130. Continental

Vicount II prop Lubbock to Amarillo, home from college for Thanksgiving, 1966, age 18.