UALrampORD From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2479 times:
Just curious to see what your first commercial flight was like. What airline and aircraft you flew on and what cities they were between. This is the flight that started my love of aviation.
Airline: United Airlines
Flight: ?
Departure City: ORD
Arrival City: IAD
Aircraft: 737-200
It was in the begining of July 1992. It was a great flight and I have not or will not forget the flight (as most of us will not forget our first). O.k. lets see yours now.
Trickijedi From United States of America, joined May 2001, 3266 posts, RR: 5 Reply 1, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2461 times:
UALrampORD,
Weird... I was gonna start a topic exactly on this very topic.
Great minds think alike I guess.
Anyway, when I was a kid my mom told me that I used to fly a lot when I was an infant, mostly on international flights. But my first commercial flight that I (somewhat) remember was a Northwest Orient flight from ORD-NRT-MNL when I was 8 or 9. By myself! You'd think a flight like that would be memorable but I don't honestly remember much of it other than having to deplane via stairs at NRT.
Its better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than be in the air wishing you were on the ground. Fly safe!
Big777jet From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2457 times:
I flew first flight prop-jet CV-580 on North Central DAY-MKE on summer of 1973. I flew first jet on DC-9-30 North Central return MKE-DAY summer of 1973.
I remembered some of it on first flight. I remembered well after all, I fell in love aviation when I raised.
Sllevin From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 3376 posts, RR: 6 Reply 3, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2455 times:
I think I was 6 1/2 years old, so it was December of 1975 during Christmas break. My dad and I had taken our trailer down to Lake Jennings, near San Diego, to go fishing for a week, but my brother was sick, so he and my mom stayed behind for a couple of days, and then they flew down (LAX-SAN) on PSA. So, to make it fair, on the way back, I got to fly back with my mom SAN-LAX and my brother drove back with my dad.
I know it was a 727, and I recall it being in the tri-colors with the smile, and I recall wanting (and getting) the window seat, and marvelling at the coastline going by. All too soon, the flight was over.
Not much has changed, though. I still prefer the window seat (although I let my common sense take over and fly in an aisle seat trans-pacific) and I look forward to flying!
B747skipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2453 times:
My first commercial flight was from New York to London -
There we connected with BEA flight (Vickers Viking) -
I was 5 of age - on board of a Pan American Boeing 377 -
I received a "diploma" in my name - aircraft was N1029V -
Aug 29-30-31, 1949...
I remember I played in the spiral staircase down to the bar...
And also visited the cockpit... (Mother and I had VIP treatment)
Dad was Air Attache at US Embassy in Paris...
Jcs17 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 8065 posts, RR: 43 Reply 6, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2443 times:
I believe it was late in 1983 or early 1984---I was only around 10 months old, ORD-LGB on a Jet America MD-80. My parents were looking at houses in the LA area.
Tu144d From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 198 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2438 times:
My first flight was when I was 4 years old on TWA in 1986...I flew from San Juan to JFK then connected and flew JFK-CDG-Cairo-Bombay. Sory, don't remember the aircraft though I'd appreciate it if some TWA buffs could tell what planes I was most likely on.
Cmk10 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 513 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2425 times:
Back in May of 1986, I was 7 1/2 months old. Took a Pan Am 747-100 from JFK-LAX. Theres a picture of me in the seat, looking very cute, group awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
DC-10's Forever
"Traveling light is the only way to fly" - Eric Clapton
Asgeirs From Iceland, joined May 2001, 513 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2424 times:
My first flight was in 1988 when I was 10 years old and went on a holiday with my parents. We flew to Cologne, Germany and back home from Amsterdam 7 days later (12/09/1988-19/09/1988).
Airline: Eagle Air of Iceland (went under in the early ninetees)
Flight: IS524
Departure City: KEF/BIKF (Keflavik, Iceland)
Arrival City: CGN/EDDK (Cologne (Köln), Germany)
Aircraft: 737-200 (TF-ISA or TF-VLT)
I can't say I remember very much from that first flight. My interest in aviation didn't start to emerge until after I went on my third trip abroad in August, 2000.
B747skipper From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 2432 times:
Dear Vikram -
xxx
Absolutely certain that you were on 747-100 with TWA from JFK, all the way to BOM - I was doing that route quite often (with PanAm) and I remember TWA was normally using the 747-100, but also occasionally the few 747SP they had back in these days...
xxx
Too bad your parents did not ask for a "first flight certificate" or equivalent for you, most airlines have these forms... Here in Argentina we have them, also we have the "God Neptune Certificate" for crossing the Equator for the first time... we always make a certificate and offer a bottle of champagne...
xxx
(s) Skipper
Sllevin From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 3376 posts, RR: 6 Reply 12, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2412 times:
Vikram: it would have been the 747-100. By 1986, TWA's SP's were flying (two of them, at least) in American Airlines colors doing the DFW-NRT non-stop; I forget where the third SP ended up.
TWA had ordered the SP's in order to start some non-stop service to the Middle East (I think JFK-Riyadh) but the route authority never came through.
Broke From United States of America, joined Apr 2002, 1322 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2395 times:
My first commercial flight was on Thanksgiving Day in 1959 from DCA to LGA.
My mom was in the hospital so my dad sent me a ticket to fly home to see her.
The airplane was an Eastern L-188A Electra (N525EA, I think) in the original Eastern Golden Falcon paint scheme, beautiful.
I had been hanging around DCA on the weekends since I started school there in September (You could do that in those days without being suspected as being a terrorist and everyone would talk to you!!) and the L-188's became my favorite airplane in and out of DCA; Eastern, American, National, Braniff, Northwest.
So when I got to the airport for my trip, I was totally gassed on being able to fly on one.
There was a light frost on the airplane and the inside was a little cool. I boarded via the forward entry door retractable airstairs (no jetways then) and sat on the right side forward of the wing and props so I would have a good view (First class was in the back on the props, both turbo and reciprocating powered).
The acceleration and climbout were exhilarating; cloudy day so all I saw, once at cruise, were the clouds; landed at LGA, smooth with a little forward G's when the props were reversed. I was hooked on the Electra and anytime I had to fly I always hoped for an L-188.
OzarkD9S From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4680 posts, RR: 23 Reply 15, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2394 times:
When: Nov 1966
Age: 18 months
Who: Ozark Airlines
What: DC-3
From: Peoria, Illinois
Final Destination: Wichita, Kansas
Why: Family Illness
Result: A lifetime love of commercial aviation
KL713 From Netherlands, joined Aug 2001, 765 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2387 times:
summer of 1985, from AMS to ALC and 2 weeks later back to AMS, on Transavia, 737-200.....can't remember my first experience, I only have the pictures in the family album....I was 4 years old that time......
JvW From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 173 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2376 times:
Elwood64151 From United States of America, joined Feb 2002, 2477 posts, RR: 7 Reply 18, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2374 times:
January, 1991
10 years old
Continental ATR-42 from MDT to EWR
Flight Number unknown
Connecting with:
Continental MD-82 from EWR to MCO
Flight Number unknown
Trip was an "Earth Shuttle" trip for students to explore the educational centers in Orlando (Epcot, MGM-Studios backstage, Kennedy Space Center, etc).
Return (6 days later):
Continental 737-200 from TPA to EWR
Flight Number Unknown
Connecting with:
Continental ATR-42 from EWR to MDT
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it in summer school.
AviationMaster From Switzerland, joined Oct 1999, 2464 posts, RR: 38 Reply 20, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2366 times:
January, 1988
18 months
Lufthansa B747 and B737
BOG-FRA-ZRH
RayChuang From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 7694 posts, RR: 5 Reply 21, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2366 times:
Here's my first commercial flight:
March 10, 1968
7 years old
CP Air DC-8 (unkonwn model)
HKG-TYO (unknown flight number)
707guy From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 205 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (10 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 2323 times:
It was October 1973 on United from Cleveland to LAX. The flight was a DC-8; a 61 I think. I remember that was before jetways were installed at Hopkins, so everyone had to walk across the ramp to the plane.
25 Alitalia744: My first commercial flight was onboard USAir (Old reds scheme) from ALB-MCO (not sure if we had a stop over)..... Aircraft was a 727-200, and I rememb
26 DeltaRules: I was a little more than a year old, so I obviously can't remember- My mom's told me about it & details are really sketchy. What I've been able to pie
27 Fanofjets: B747Skipper, You're a lucky fellow. I would have loved to have flown on a Stratocruiser! My first flight was in the dawn of the jet age, in 1965. I wa
28 Mcdougald: My first flight was at the age of six in March or April 1979 on CP Air. We flew from Winnipeg to Vancouver via Edmonton on a 737-200, then connected t
29 Airplanetire: I can't really remember my first flight because I was between 4 and 6 weeks old. It was on a Piedmont 737-200 from TRI (Tri Cities, Tennessee) to CLT.
30 BH346: It was a military charter flight from Kadena AFB to LAX via Anchorage I think. Earliest flight I can remember well was Wichita to Memphis on a Northwe
31 Travatl: Summer, 1985 Aspen Airways BAe-146 From: Farmington, NM (FMN) To: Durango, CO (DRO) Flight Duration: 10 minutes I was 14 years old, hadn't ever flown
32 727_Gal: I believe my first flight was when I was five months old, December of 1983. I flew Northwest from MEM to EWR (I would assume it was EWR)... not sure w
33 Tpowaleny: According to my mother, my first flight was on "a small plane." This unfortunately doesn't help because my mom classifies planes as small ranging B190
34 Venuscat2: My first commercial flight was on a United Airlines 727 from GRR-ORD. My parents left me with my grandparents in Chicago and then continued on to thei
35 Garuda: Mine was on June 1987 Mandala Airlines Vickers Viscount CGK-SRG I remember boarding through the front door of the Viscount since thre wasn't any air-b
36 Solnabo: My first was -77 ARN-CPH in a blizzard with SAS DC-9 in feb. Some vikingname on the a/c....of course. Scary, cuz it was bumpy for nearly 1 hour, just
37 Dc10guy: 1975 Southern Airways DC-9 DTW-ROA. I'll never forget breaking thru the clouds for the first time and seeing the sun on top of the clouds... I was 14
38 STT757: 1977 or early '78, Eastern airlines EWR-ATL-MCO. Went to Disney World with the folks during a tremendous snowstorm, I remember they were doing a huge
39 Cathay Pacific: Ok...This is what my dad told me so it may not be 100% correct. Airline: Philippine Airlines Flight: ? Departure City: Hong Kong Arrival City: Honolul
40 Cathay Pacific: Whoops...forgot to say that it was 1980.
41 Boeing747-700: First Jet flight would have been with Eastern Airlines, on the DC8 back in the 80's
42 Yyz717: Wardair 707-320C YYZ-LGW in Dec 1970. I was 5 years old.
43 Astrojet: My first flight was at the age of 3 month from IBZ to BCN with Iberia on 1971, I don´t remember the plane (no wonder with that age) but guess it was
44 Reddevl442: My first flight was in 1978,if I remember right. For sure it was an American 727,TUS-ORD and then United 737 ORD-MBS.
45 FrequentFlyKid: My first flight was.... Midwest Express CLE-MKE DC9-30 June 8, 2000 Since then I have flown on 68 different segments and I will make Elite status on D
46 Chepos: My first flight was in 1984- I was 1 yeara old so I hardly remember anything. But I have been told a couple of things on this flight. -Delta Airlines
47 Hurricane: First flight was in '90 or '91, flying to my uncle's funeral, from GSO-LNK on TWA. I believe it was a 727 on GSO-STL, with a turboprop, probably a Saa
48 LPL: I was 18 months old when I flew MAN-DUB in December '84 A couple of months later I flew to Hawaii on BA and UA.
49 Pilatus: My first flight: when: February 1980 from: Zurich (Switzerland) to: Dhahran (Saudi Arabia) airline: Swissair aircraft: Douglas DC-8-60 My Dad had to w
50 BR715-A1-30: My first ever commercial flight Airline: AirTran Airways Flight: 1006 Destination: GPT-HOU Aircraft: DC9-32 Ship: 930 Date: July 24, 1999 Seat: 10A Pr
51 Backfire: SN604, a Sabena 707 flight from LHR-BRU, way back in August '78. The in-flight meal was anchovies. Bluuuuurgh.
55 Gsoflyer: Funny Hurricane is an RDU fan with the first flight from GSO. I didn't know GSO was ever served by TWA. Anyway, my first flight was in 1999 from RDU t
56 Mikkel777: My first flight was FBU-EWR, July -89, when I was 11. The plane was a three months old 767-383ER, Ingegerd Viking. I think we had seats in Euroclass,
57 Hurricane: Funny Hurricane is an RDU fan with the first flight from GSO Heh....I was born in Winston-Salem, and lived there for 5 or so years. And I'm 99% sure i
58 Daves1243: My parents didn't care to fly, but they did like to visit the old Municipal Airport in Kansas City, MO (MKC-now known as Downtown Airport) to watch pl
59 Lubcha132: I think it was a DL L1011..i was a few months old.
60 Megatop747-412: Here's me vivid memories of my first commercial flight..: Date : Sunday 6 March 1989 Airline : Air New Zealand Flight No : TE26 (Air NZ's intl' code b
62 Tom in NO: Date: June 12, 1976 Airline: TWA Aircraft: L-1011 Origin: LAX-Los Angeles Destination: BOS-Boston Tom in NO (at MSY)
63 Spark: My first comercial flight was FAT-SFO, and then took a JAL flight from SFO ton HNL, and then onto Tokyo. It was 1974, and we were moving to Indonesia.
65 JohnJ: Mine was in 1977 on a nonstop from Memphis to Washington, DC National Airport on an American Airlines 727.
66 CO 757 200: My first flight was back in August of '89 going from Rochester to Newark on one of those old classic ex LH, PX Continental 737-130's.....too bad they
67 Ybacpa: Good ole' Eastern Airlines Either an L1011 or DC10, I'm not sure which Somewhere around December 27-30, 1984 EWR-MCO First class (mom absolutely refus
68 Type-rated: This was so long ago, but I still remember it like yesterday... Date: February, 1970 Airline: Northwest Departure City: ORD Destination City: MSP Airc
69 A380: JAL DC8, HKG-> NRT, sometime in the early 80s.
70 Coronado: 1st July 1958; REAL Lockheed Super Constellation 1049 Sao Paulo Cumbica (former Brazilian airforce base roughly on the same piece of ground where Sao
71 MSYtristar: December, 1979....New Orleans to Houston/Hobby....Eastern Airlines 727-200 I do miss Eastern
72 CanadianNorth: I was 6 months old! It was an a/c that is still one of my favorites!!! CanadianNORTH B 737-200Adv. from Yellowknife, NWT to Inuvik, NWT
73 Flyguy1: Spring 1986 JFK-FLL on an Eastern L1011 Long live Eastern !!
74 FlyboyOz: I remembered when I was 5 years old, I was so excited to fly on a strange bird (My mum told me so as I could not understand what an aeroplane is! LOL)
75 Soupthansa: My first flight was the first leg of a journey from Columbia, SC to Taipei, Taiwan in December 1965. I was 8 weeks old and the family departed Columbi
77 S.p.a.s.: Airline: VASP Flight: VPxxx DEP : Sao Paulo(CGH) ARR: Belo Horizonte (PLU) Aircraft: B737-200 Year: Apr or May 1975, I was only 8 months old Rgds, Ren
78 Westjet_8: I am really not sure but it was one of these three (all happened when i was really young) American Airlines M80 YYC-SFO (probally connected) Detla Air
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