Airline "crop duster". And he did loops for me. Take that, all you boring airliners!
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How in the world do you remember the first airline you flew in much less the first twenty?
Lots of people don't fly.
A few trips ago, I sat next to a guy in his 50s on his first ever flight.
He was so excited. More so than my 4 yo was on his first trip.
I had to teach him how to put his seat back and told him he can keep the headphones and how they used to have these tube headphones and what it was like before 9/11.
Twenty?? Jesus, not everyone is able to travel that much.
Itβs not really traveling that much. Depending on how old you are that could be 0-1 times a year.
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TWA as a very young kid - I kept trying to pronounce it as a word and my dad was giggling and my mom and sister kept shushing me...I did not know why at the time.
I wonder if you were periously close to just yelling "twat" over and over.
Ansett Australia.. RIP
The colouring book was mad though
yeah me too. I specifically remember media covering the collapse of Ansett at the same time as 9/11, which seemed interesting that they thought the two were equivalent.
Ansett went on to exist as a training company for a while. Not sure if they still do.
I think I first flew on TAA, from Brisbane to Sydney, then connected to a KLM flight to the Netherlands. Would have been about '83.
I don't remember; I was a baby.
Almost certainly American. My grandfather was a pilot for American, my uncle is currently a pilot for American, and my cousin just got hired as a pilot by American.
TAA (Trans Australian Airlines) just flying domestically in Australia
Royal Air Force being emergency evacuated.
Continental Airlines, way back in the 1960's.
Ryanair when I was around 13/14yo. I wasnβt expecting something like business class on a A380, but boi that was a surprise. But I still enjoyed the take off.
Braathens, out of Fornebu. Neither the airline nor the airport exists anymore.
Kingfisher Airlines (India).
When it was operative, it was luxury flight at same "ordinary" prices as other airlines.
They were amazing back then.
Possibly Delta, though we only flew a handful of times when I was a kid, and I don't remember very well.
Probably AirFrance
Air Canada. It was the first time I ever left home. Now I try to fly WestJet if I can. Air Canada has lost my bags like 60% of the time.
Braniff
Believe it!
Can't remember the first airline proper, but my first flight was with a bush pilot. Old, well beaten floatplane, the first leg of our trip. Took a week to walk back, stopping to fish on every lake along the way.
Jetblue
US Airways or United I believe. I don't remember my first flight but those were the airlines my family always flew growing up.
First flight ever was Qantas business class from Sydney to London. I was 12
PSA in 1984
I still miss PSA. When I was growing up, if you were flying between Southern and Northern California you flew PSA. They were an institution.
And now that upstart Texas airline dominates inter-California routes.
Now defunct, Kingfisher Airlines.
Piedmont. From CLE to OWB. This was probably 87 or 88?
Continental, sometime in the mid 90s.
Sabena. Boston->Brussels in the 90s.
Lufthansa back from Munich Riem.
!The only airport ever with a fly-in McDonalds.!<
Pan-Am baby
The first time I ever flew was when I was reporting to boot camp. The US Navy chose United Airlines for that trip. I was absolutely nervous.
Laker Airlines 1981 - London Gatwick to Tampa
Iβve only ever flown on Southwest, which is basically the Greyhound bus of the sky.
I see you haven't met Southwest's meth addicted nephew, Frontier Airlines. That's the real Greyhound of the sky.
Or sun country. Flew them to Alaska and it was like a flying school bus.
Midway Airlines out of Midway Airport, Chicago back when they had their own airline. We got pb&jβs on a frisbee we got to keep. :). Things are a little different nowβ¦
Vueling, Spanish low-cost carrier, from Berlin to Bilbao on my first international business trip back in 2017. I loved the announcements in Spanish during the flight.
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