Triebwerk From United States, joined Sep 2008, 69 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 months 4 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 1320 times:
[Sorry if this was posted in the wrong forum. I would have put it under one of the aviation categories, but none of them seemed to fit. Moderators: please move it if it needs to be relocated!]
What was the first trip in the sky you ever took? If you know, include the departing/arriving airports, the airline, your age and your reason for travel. Bonus points if you were born on an airplane.
(My personal example: When I was just months old, my parents flew with me and my 2-year-old sister from Narita to Honolulu on a United Flight. I think we were just on vacation.]
Vikkyvik From United States, joined Jul 2003, 3064 posts, RR: 16 Reply 4, posted (2 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1308 times:
I think it was a Continental flight from BOS to CLE, when I was about 6 years old (so 1988 or thereabouts).
The thing I remember most about it was the very distinct smell that inhabits airplane cabins - a mix of jet fuel and whatever else. I absolutely hated the smell at the time, and for the next few flights I was on. But then, magically, on one flight some years later, probably, the smell completely ceased to bother me.
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Pyrex From Portugal, joined Aug 2005, 1863 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (2 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1304 times:
A Boeing 737-300 from now defunct Air Atlantis, from LGW to LIS, in 1988, when I was six. We had moved to the UK for a year because of my father's job (we drove there) and came back home for Christmas.
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Aaron747 From Japan, joined Aug 2003, 3318 posts, RR: 12 Reply 8, posted (2 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1291 times:
5 years old, so must have been 1984 or so, SFO-DFW-MCO on AA in 1st class. From the pictures, windows look like a 767. We went to DisneyWorld with my cousins and family from Dallas. It was the first time my parents flew with me, and around that time, my dad was always flying us in first.
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Cadet57 From United States, joined Jul 2005, 7105 posts, RR: 19 Reply 10, posted (2 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1285 times:
2 years old, May of 1989. BDL-DCA?(we think on US or EA[really wish it was EA]) It was for my uncle's graduation from Catholic University. According to my parents, I hated then entire ride and cried for just about the entire duration of the flight.
Doors open, right hand side, next stop is Springfield.
Cpd From Australia, joined Jun 2008, 121 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (2 months 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1281 times:
I think it was on a very old 727, or maybe a BAE "bring the spare engine along" 146.
Quoting Jetstar (Reply 7): 1959, National Airlines (the original) round trip from Newark to Miami on a Lockheed Constellation, that started my love for aviation.
LASOctoberB6 From Japan, joined Nov 2006, 1964 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (2 months 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1276 times:
I can barely remember, but I think we flew UA, Piedmont, or US to a central New York airport. I'm not sure if it was SYR... could have been ALB. I don't know. You know what? It could have even been DL.. I give up...
STT757 From United States, joined Mar 2000, 10303 posts, RR: 41 Reply 13, posted (2 months 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1279 times:
Winter 1978, during a huge blizzard. My Parents took my brother and I to Disney World, we flew Eastern Airlines EWR-ATL-MCO. I actually have a memory or two of this trip, mostly the snow and trying to get off the plane in Atlanta not understanding that's not where Disney World was. I believe it was an A300, it could have been an L-1011.
I was three years old, our return flight was nonstop from Orlando to JFK again on Eastern. This segment I have no memory of but my Parents filled me in on the details. My Grandfather who lived on Bay 8th Street in Dyker Heights Brooklyn came and picked us up from Kennedy and took us back to our house on Staten Island.
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Steeler83 From United States, joined Feb 2006, 6256 posts, RR: 11 Reply 18, posted (2 months 4 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1255 times:
Quoting Luv2fly (Reply 1): 1977 AA DTW to LAX via ORD on my first and only 707 returned later on AA from LAX to DTW nonstop on a DC10
Awww man!! I bet that was awesome!!
My first flight:
October 24th - 31st, 1992. I was 9 years old.
Pittsburgh - Orlando
USAir Flight 8564
Douglas DC9-30 I believe -- I know it was a DC9 at least...
The return flight, USAir 8565, was also a DC9
I really hope I can book a flight to Minnesota to see a friend of ours near Fargo, ND (Minnesota side of the Red River, of course), and that we could book with NW. Otherwise, those flights might be my only ones on a DC9 before they're pretty much out of pax service...
NorthstarBoy From United States, joined Jun 2005, 840 posts, RR: 0 Reply 19, posted (2 months 4 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 1243 times:
the first flight i remember was 1974, i was 6, flying Dca-Msp-Geg and back on Northwest Orient, the Msp-Geg was my first DC-10 ride, and first ride on any kind of widebody, Dca-Msp, and geg-msp-dca on the return were all 727s. We were going for the world's fair and to visit the grandparents.
I'll fly on any airline once, the kind of service i get during that one experience determines whether or not i'll return
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