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Bitxofo February 21st, 2006, 11:17 PM My first one was from Barcelona to Málaga (Southern Spain), 998 kilometres, I was 1 year old, but I cannot remember. My mother told me...
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The 1st flight I remember is another BCN to Málaga, I was 6 years old, there was a big storm and I was scared because I saw flashes and lightnings from the plane's window...
:runaway:
My 1st international flight was from Barcelona to Manchester (England), with Monarch airlines, when I was 20 years old.
;)
My 1st intercontinental flight was from BCN to New York, I was 27 years old.
:wink2:
How about yours?
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ZOHAR February 21st, 2006, 11:20 PM 1st flight to Lithuania when i was 5 or 6 years old......
ZimasterX February 21st, 2006, 11:47 PM Flight: Mineralnye Vody to Moscow (Vnukovo Airport), Airline: Aeroflot, Plane: Illushin-86, When: A long time ago, Flight Time: About 2 hours
Forza Raalte February 22nd, 2006, 12:05 AM My first flight was from Schiphol to Crete. It was amazing, I was 10 years old.
I remember that there was a huge fire on the airport (not the main terminal) when we landed :runaway:
I also remember that Heraklions airport is WAY too small. We were packed like sardines.
Frog February 22nd, 2006, 12:11 AM My first flight was going from Seoul to London.
I was too young to remember specific details except im pretty sure I remember going on a 747 but not sure of the airline.
The first flight I "properly" remember was the same but reverse via Paris CDG on Air France. We went on a small Airbus from London to CDG then a 747 to Seoul Gimpo (Incheon wasnt opened yet ;) ) and then on a small Korean Air plane to Daegu... was quite a journey :)
Renkinjutsushi February 22nd, 2006, 12:15 AM My first flight was from Manila to Tokyo (Narita) as I was immigrating to Florida when I was 4 years old, the plane was Norwest Airlines 747 and it took about 2 hours to get there.
HoustonTexas February 22nd, 2006, 12:30 AM first flight was from aberdeen to london on BA, then my second flight was from London to Madrid, and then on to Las Palmas
MoreOrLess February 22nd, 2006, 12:35 AM London to Toronto and back aged 9 or 10.
DiggerD21 February 22nd, 2006, 12:57 AM My first flight was at the age of 21 in October 2002 from Hamburg to Istanbul with Pegasus Airlines (Turkey's biggest charter airline). I choosed a window seat. We escaped a hurricane which approached northern germany via the north sea and we landed in sunny, warm Istanbul. The approach to Istanbul was amazing: The suburbs looked like SimCity.
The flight back was with charter airline Hamburg International.
These flights were also my longest ones until now.
Baianóide February 22nd, 2006, 01:12 AM From Salvador Bahia to São Paulo (2h15') when I was 1 month old by Cruzeiro do Sul Airlines. (it doesn't exist anymore)
[Kees] February 22nd, 2006, 01:50 AM My first flight was between Rotterdam and London at the age of 17.
dmg1mn February 22nd, 2006, 02:48 AM My first flight was when I was 10.
From Minneapolis/St. Paul to Seattle with a layover in Spokane.
Pavlo February 22nd, 2006, 03:01 AM Lviv-Warsaw
richardsonhomebuyers February 22nd, 2006, 04:17 AM My first flight was when I was 8. It was from Chicago to LA.
chukchi February 22nd, 2006, 04:48 AM Mine was to Copanhagen :yes:
Æsahættr February 22nd, 2006, 04:53 AM like too young to remember but Cebu-Manila (like 1 yrs old?)
first international was Cebu-HongKong (like 3 yrs old?)
first transcontinental was Cebu-Manila-Tokyo-San Fransisco-Minneapolis (like.. 5 years old?)
Zaqattaq February 22nd, 2006, 04:57 AM My first flight was Philadelphia to London Heathrow on a British Airways 747-400. I was 7 years old; on the return leg we got upgraded to Business class and flying has been ruined for me ever since.
mr_storms February 22nd, 2006, 05:19 AM United airlines dc-10 from Chicago O'hare to London Heathrow in fall/winter of 1988
Anymodal February 22nd, 2006, 06:15 AM Vancouver-Los Angeles-Santiago. 2 or 3 years old.
LesterKao February 22nd, 2006, 06:47 AM First Domestic: SEA-LAX on Alaska Airlines in 1992
First International: SEA-TPE on Thai Airways on MD-11 in 1992 (back when they still had service to Seattle)
Czas na Żywiec February 22nd, 2006, 06:51 AM My first one was from Chicago to Warsaw when I was five. But I don't even remember much about it. Flew that route a few times, but it's been replaced by Chicago - Krakow since the mid 90s. But my first domestic flight wasn't til I was 17, from Denver to Chicago.
LSyd February 22nd, 2006, 06:55 AM i'm pretty sure i was 3 or 4 and it was from knoxville to memphis, maybe an hour and a half. my ears were bugging me, they may have bled, i'm not sure. i remember knoxville to texas at age 6 a lot better.
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centralized pandemonium February 22nd, 2006, 07:12 AM First flight: When I was a lil less than 1, Mumbai to Chennai, mum told me. I started crying and then the airhostess came running with milk i think.
First I remember: I think abt 7 yrs old : Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Chennai.
First international flight: 16yrs, Delhi-London-Toronto.
Nicolás February 22nd, 2006, 07:36 AM My fist flight was from Hanover, Germany to Tenerife, Spain (3400km) when I was 16. I flew another time when I was 17; from Hamburg to Stockholm - my first intercontinental flight will be in October ;)
Küsel February 22nd, 2006, 02:08 PM My first flight was with a friend of mine in a 3-seater making some wild movements over the Jura mountains - so nothing could shock me again afterwards :lol:
My first line flight was from Zurich to London by Falcon Airlines in 88... Parts of the laguage compartment over the seats fell down in the turbulences, there was water between the two "glasses" of my window that was freezing in cruising altitude and bended everything that I was afraid it would break. Finally we landed after a big thunderstorm flight - survived and another time I was baptized :rofl:
cristianocani February 22nd, 2006, 02:52 PM My fist flight was from Cagliari (Sardinia) to Rome, (300km) when I was 6, in the 1982
sjwmoore February 22nd, 2006, 02:53 PM Bristol-Dublin in 1968 when I was was 6 months old - apparently on a Vickers Viscount. First remembered flight RAF Changi (Singapore) to Brize Norton, 1972, via RAF Gan (Maldives), RAF Masirah (Oman) and RAF Akrotiri (Cyprus), on a VC10
Rev February 22nd, 2006, 02:55 PM First flight was when I was four, to Singapore..
DvW February 22nd, 2006, 03:36 PM My first flight was Amsterdam - Tenerife when I was 12 years old. It was fantastic! :D
coth February 22nd, 2006, 03:55 PM I was 6. It was fly from Berdyansk to Vnukovo, Moscow. I don't remember jet. May be Tu-134.
jlshyang February 22nd, 2006, 05:57 PM First Flight : Singapore Airlines frm Penang to Singapore when i was 10 yrs old.
SE9 February 22nd, 2006, 08:20 PM It was a flight to the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya.. 5mnths old.
vanoy2000 February 24th, 2006, 05:40 AM First domestic flight: Cebu to Ilo-ilo - 1976
First International flight: Manila to Riyadh - 1983
First flight to Europe: Riyadh to Athens - 1985
First flight to North America: Manila to Vancouver - 1997
Henk February 24th, 2006, 11:43 PM My first flight was from Amsterdam to Cork, Ireland when I was 1 year old.
schmidt February 25th, 2006, 03:24 AM 1st domestic: Maybe 1991 when I was 4, to Sao Paulo.
1st international: July 13th 1992, to Buenos Aires.
1st intercontinental: December 21st, to New York City.
london-b February 25th, 2006, 03:30 AM First flight- 1998 on a 757, London Gatwick - Palma, Majorca on Flying colours (since been taken over to form jmc, then Tompson)
MuddyZehbra32 February 25th, 2006, 06:48 AM from Lehigh ValleyIA to Pittsburgh lol. don't ask me why i had to do that, it was an odd situation.
Dr. Dubai February 25th, 2006, 01:09 PM first fligt was Amsterdam-Paris, when I was 7 years old. First intercontinental was Amsterdam-Minneapolis-St. Pauls when I was 10 years old.
Shanghai City February 25th, 2006, 01:35 PM my first flight with 7 years
Frankfurt-Antalya
first international flight with 16 y
Frankfurt-Los Angeles
first flight to Asia with 18 y
Frankfurt-Shanghai
first flight to Australia with 20 y
Shanghai-Sydney
thunder head February 25th, 2006, 01:44 PM my first airline flight was Melbourne-Kuala Lumpur-Vienna when I was 12. Aircraft was Lauda air Beoing 777-200ER. Had some turbulance over the middle east, airplane flying in and out of air pockets or whatever. flight took 22 hours, about 17,000km.
rembau1958 February 25th, 2006, 02:17 PM My 1st flight was from Brunei to Singapore and on to Kuala Lumpur when I was a baby so I don't recall anything about it, other than me being popular with the stewardesses (at least that was what my sister told me).
The 1st flight that I could recall was an 18 hour journey on a Boeing 747 from Kuala Lumpur to London, with a stop for refuel in Dubai. Those days planes can't fly non-stop from KL to London unlike today. Nope, that time I was not lucky enough to be popular with the stewardesses. Too bad.
blue79 February 25th, 2006, 02:32 PM My first flight was between Sofia and Tripoli at the age of 5.I did not remember details from the flight itself,but I rememder the plane-it was something so big and new to me-it was the good old TU154 :D
SGoico March 18th, 2006, 12:06 PM First Domestic flight: Barcelona to Madrid - 1998
First International flight: Barcelona to London - 1997 (My first ever flight, aged 23)
First Intercontinental flight: : Barcelona to Sao Paolo - 1998
crazyeight March 18th, 2006, 10:22 PM My first flight was from Dubai to Prague at the age of 1.
JustHorace March 25th, 2006, 05:57 AM My first was on a Philippine Airlines flight to Bangkok from Manila.
Effer March 25th, 2006, 06:05 AM India to USA at 3 or 4 years old.
OtAkAw March 25th, 2006, 08:15 AM Davao-Manila in Philippines, it's a domestic one...
Saigoneseguy March 25th, 2006, 08:25 AM My first flight: Saigon-Hanoi on Vietnam Airlines 1996
First international flight: Saigon-Hong Kong by Cathay Pacific 1998
Jules March 25th, 2006, 10:47 PM New York when I was a few months.
LtBk March 25th, 2006, 10:59 PM Don't remember but i think it was IAD-ARN in 1989 or 1990.
Gordion March 25th, 2006, 11:29 PM My first flight was from Istanbul to Belgrade in 1980's, with Yugoslav airlines. The plane was old and shaky :(
mhays March 26th, 2006, 01:40 AM Seattle to Fort Lauderdale, 1986, aged 17 (via Dallas on the way, then Atlanta on the way back). My high school sent 33 students and 5 adults to the Everglades and Keys to study marine biology and play volleyball for two weeks spanning spring break. Pretty amazing for a big public school in a poor neighborhood. I got my scuba license for that trip.
Before that, my longest trip had been to Iowa by car. Two veery long days each way.
szalony_okon March 26th, 2006, 02:17 AM My first flight was between Berlin Tegel and Rome Fumicino with AirBerlin when i was 17..i remembre i was pissed off till we had started!since that moment i love to fligh :D
zivan56 March 26th, 2006, 11:08 AM ~1993 Budapest - Frankfurt - Toronto - Vancouver
My first flight was from Istanbul to Belgrade in 1980's, with Yugoslav airlines. The plane was old and shaky :(
If you went after 1985, you would have been on one of the first Boeing 737-300's operating on Europe ;)
nikolaidis March 26th, 2006, 11:18 AM 1993 : Brussels - Amsterdam ( KLM - Fokker 50 ). I remember a passenger kept complaining about something and that the steward suddenly responded in a rude way.
i_am_hydrogen March 26th, 2006, 11:36 AM Chicago to St. Louis to New Orleans. It was a blast.
baqthier March 26th, 2006, 11:47 AM Back in 1983 and that was to Singapore.
keros March 26th, 2006, 01:05 PM 2005, Mallorca
Skyman March 26th, 2006, 07:11 PM San Francisco to Atlanta when I was 19
jacek_t83 March 27th, 2006, 12:57 AM My first flight was two years ago from Warsaw to Copenhagen then form Copenhagen to Chicago O'Hare ;) by Scandinavian Airlines ;)
samba_man March 27th, 2006, 01:39 AM My first flight was between Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon with only one yrs old .:D
Skybean March 27th, 2006, 02:38 AM 1 Year Old. Vancouver to Toronto
Permanent MOVE.
Fusionist March 27th, 2006, 03:45 AM when I was 1 yr old
From Colombo to Jaffna !
Ultros March 28th, 2006, 06:06 AM I experienced my first flight when I was 4 years old. It was on a Boeing 747 from Italy to New York. Then From New York to Seattle.
Sideshow_Bob April 3rd, 2006, 07:24 PM From Stockholm to Kuopio in Finland via Helsinki.
staff April 4th, 2006, 12:31 PM First domestic: MMX-ARN, some time during the 80s.
First international: CPH-ARN, some time during the 80s.
First Intercontinental: CPH-POP, 1997 if I recall correctly.
grachtengordeldier April 4th, 2006, 09:06 PM Amsterdam-Montréal and I was sick and scared to death.
_00_deathscar April 12th, 2006, 06:53 AM My first ever flight was from Bombay, India to Goa, India at the age of 3.
My first ever international flight was from Bombay, India to Hong Kong at the age of 5.
sisig April 12th, 2006, 09:46 AM San Francisco to Manila via Honolulu. 1987, I was two!
Mr.Bonifacy April 12th, 2006, 02:52 PM From Warsaw to Detroit via Amsterdam, i was 22y/o :)
kiku99 April 12th, 2006, 03:08 PM whoo, that was long ago. My frist flight was the BKK-HKG flight on Thai Airways when i was around 9-10 years old, and now I am almost 24 yrs old. ;)
Danish_guy April 12th, 2006, 03:27 PM hmm think i was 10yr or something from Billund(Denmark) to Hurghada(egypt)
Captain Chaos April 12th, 2006, 03:54 PM London-Sardinia, in a Dan-Air BAC1-11 ! Showing my age now.
jmancuso April 12th, 2006, 04:33 PM PEOPLExpress (727-200) from houston to syracuse - 1984
Paddington April 12th, 2006, 04:49 PM From Gaya, Bihar, India to Patna, Bihar, India (a distance of probably less than 70 miles), when I was a few months old.
My grandfather, who was quite well off, thought that I deserved to be sent by airplane when going to visit my other grandfather's home for the first time. :cheers:
wallh April 12th, 2006, 05:09 PM First domestic = Lima to Cuzco 1992 (both cities in Perú) B. 727
First international= Lima to Miami. 1994
gruber April 12th, 2006, 07:14 PM first flight when i have 2 years: Milan-Munich
first Intercontinental when i was 16 years old: Milan-New York
totally flights in my life: around 200.
most flights in a year: 35 (2000)
Longest flight: Frankfurth - Singapore (more than 14 hours)
shortest flight: Papeete-Moorea (9 minutes)
Continent travelled by air: All except Antartica.
Crapest company: Sosa Airline (from Roatan to La Ceiba - Honduras)
kiretoce April 12th, 2006, 07:31 PM My first flight was an SQ flight from MNL to SIN in April 1981.
xXx carlos xXx April 12th, 2006, 09:00 PM my firdt flight is when i was in grade 3...from cebu to singapore in a silk air aircraft
Panameñita April 12th, 2006, 09:04 PM In my first flight, I went to Orlando, Florida..to the theme parks...
I was 15 years old, and it was my gift for my 15 birthday...in Latin American countries, the 15 birthday of a girl is the most important birtday..
cepera April 12th, 2006, 09:47 PM At 4 yrs old Moscow-Crimea or Moscow-Odessa on Tu-154...cant remember which one first. Were awesome times back then...:)
kryszakk April 12th, 2006, 10:30 PM from Warsaw to Bangkok via Budapest....and I was 15 yrs old.
heavyzakura334 April 12th, 2006, 10:47 PM my first flight: from Los Angeles (LAX) to Guadalajara (GDL) I was 11 years old.
Longest flight: From San Francisco to Maui, Hawaii (6 hrs)
jmancuso April 12th, 2006, 11:20 PM In my first flight, I went to Orlando, Florida..to the theme parks...
I was 15 years old, and it was my gift for my 15 birthday...in Latin American countries, the 15 birthday of a girl is the most important birtday..
quinceañera right?
Panameñita April 12th, 2006, 11:31 PM quinceañera right?
yes!
During the "quinceaños" , your dad give you a ring (like in the marriage) and in the party you have "gentlemans" that presents you to the other people like if you are a princess. You do a dancing, and also your parents puts you the "shoes" like cinderella.
I didn´t have a big party because I prefered the trip to Orlando. Usually the girls have or the party or the trip or both. And actually the girls are having their quinceaños in discoteques and some of them dont use a "princess dress" but a night dress.
Calvin W April 15th, 2006, 01:35 AM First flight, Saskatoon to Vancouver, then on to Hong Kong and finally Perth, Australia. And return. Over 24 hours flying time in total. Age 34. It was priceless! I have done it ten times since.
paradyto April 15th, 2006, 01:39 AM 2 years old, from Palembang (South Sumatra) to Balikpapan (West Kalimantan) by Garuda Indonesia in 1977:)
shayan April 15th, 2006, 05:29 PM Shiraz ( iran ), Isfahan ( iran ). I was 8 months old.
persian April 16th, 2006, 01:45 PM Tehran-frankfurt when I was 3 years old.
keros April 16th, 2006, 01:57 PM Barcelona - Mallorca when i was 14 years old 2005
stephane April 16th, 2006, 03:48 PM Nice - Moscow
littleitgirl April 19th, 2006, 10:06 PM My first flight was in 1997 when I was 16 from Hamilton, Ontario to Kelowna, BC on Greyhound Airlines. The airline was shortlived and ceased operations 2 months later... maybe the Greyhound Airlines hat I won in a contest during the flight is a collectors item now!
TallBox April 19th, 2006, 10:22 PM I don't remember it; I was 1 years old... London - Dubai - Sri Lanka
Marcanadian April 19th, 2006, 10:27 PM Well Ive yet to go on a plane. I travel by car but in the summer Im going to Tampa Bay Florida.
So the first time I see the ocean and go on a plane!
Genç April 19th, 2006, 11:20 PM London - Paris, via Air France. :okay:
Xusein April 21st, 2006, 08:56 PM First flight: Hargesia, Somalia(land) to Dubai, UAE in 1996...left it forever.
Longest Flight: Newark, NJ-London-Dubai-Aden, Yemen...23 hours (counting connections)
Soulbrotha April 21st, 2006, 09:55 PM 1st-Louisville (LIA) to New york (La Guardia)
2nd-New York (JFK) to Dakar, Senegal (DAKAR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT)
3rd-Dakar, Senegal (DIA) to Johannesburg, SA (JIA)
4th-Johannesburg, South Africa (JIA) to Capetown, SA (CIA)
i came home in reverse order...17 hours both ways.
garpie April 21st, 2006, 10:16 PM 1st - Aug 1990 - Madrid Riga (then USSR) - Aeroflot. I was just 15 y.o.
You can imagine my disappointment in my first contact with the aviation world. I had never imagined an aircraft to be that grotty :eek2:
Of course, it was wiiiiiidely compensated with my first ever ride on a metro: Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and Moscow metros uuuuaaaaaahhhh I still remember train acceleration and those underground museums that were called metro stations...
Halawala April 21st, 2006, 11:22 PM First Flight: From London to Doha (when I was 3 months old) on Gulf Air in 1985
Latest Flight: From Doha to Dubai (four weeks ago), on Qatar Airways
Milosh April 22nd, 2006, 04:49 AM My first flight was Belgrade- Tivat with JAT (Jugoslovenski Aerotransport - Yugoslav Airlines) when I was less than one year old...I don't remember it though.
My first inter-continental flight was Belgrade-Paris-Toronto when I was 15 years old with Air France.
Best flight so far ... Toronto-Moscow with Aeroflot:okay:
globocentric April 22nd, 2006, 01:11 PM I've flown far too many times wouldnt be able to remember
Jeff_in_Dayton April 22nd, 2006, 02:38 PM I was 1 or 2 years old for my first flight so dont remember
I was 6 or 7 for the second, which is probably my de-facto first flight...Chicago to Franfurt on a Lufthansa Boeing 707 in 1966. I recall we flew over Greenland and the N Atlantic and I could look down and see ice packs and ice bergs.
Yardmaster April 22nd, 2006, 06:14 PM My first flight ever was when I was about 11 years old. I was one of "Brian's Juniors", and since I had a birthday on the right day in September, I was driven by my parents to the local light aircraft aerodrome, about 25 km away, and there I was, sitting in the front seat, next to the guy the who read the news, in this little Cessna! The other lucky winner was a small girl about three or four years old, who was accompanied by (and held very carefully by) her parents in the two back seats.
This was all a very big experience for me, and when, sitting next to Brian, our Local Television Newsreader or anchor Man, the control things started to move in front of me, I started to grab at them, because they were rolling all over the place. Brian told me to get my hands off and put them back in my pockets ... whatever. The small girl in the back was screaming, but, not, I think, on account of me. We did a very short circuit of the suburbs round the airport and then landed swiftly and silently: without my help.
You know how they promoted that guy? "Ask Brian. He Knows."
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The next time I got up in a plane I was at least ten years older : but it was a Cessna again. This time I had hired it myself, and hired it to circle over the property I'd bought.
My brother, his girl-friend, and our friend were in the back.
I'd post the images here, but they're slides...
The last time in a small plane I had my daughter aboard. We flew from Alice Springs to King's Canyon and back: in the middle of Austalia. She was about eight years old. She was pretty impressed, or scared, or excited, all three! Again, great pictures, but they're slides ...
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The first time I ever flew in a commercial aeroplane was from Melbourne to Sydney ... with a wife and daughter ... and then from Auckland back to Melbourne, with the same team. Yes and I flew to Singapore and back, via Sydney , and there was also the trip from Tasmania ...
Rapid April 24th, 2006, 02:58 AM Toronto Pearson Intl. to Amsterdam Schipol in a 747 at age 7!
The beginning of my interest in flight and aerospace!
ill-b April 27th, 2006, 02:37 PM My first flight was in 1998, Amsterdam-London-Bangkok-Sydney, when I was 19 years of age. :cheers:
Slodi April 29th, 2006, 07:18 PM First flight? July 1996 from Gdansk to Warsaw and then Nice!
Janis_LV January 5th, 2007, 06:10 PM Riga - Copenhagen with airBaltic, I was soo scared! But everything went good and these days they gave food for free on flights and ticket for one hour flight was around 400 EUR both way. Now I fly for average 40 EUR both way for much longer flights and I dont miss these expensive sandwiches at all.
Janis_LV January 5th, 2007, 06:11 PM My first flight was in 1998, Amsterdam-London-Bangkok-Sydney, when I was 19 years of age. :cheers:
wow first flight so far - so what should we understan that until that you never had your nose out of your country or you travelled only with trains and buses at that time or you simply didn care about Europe and as soon as you could travell you started with far destinations?
CessTenn January 6th, 2007, 12:20 AM My first flight was from Lima, Peru to Miami, USA when i was 18... So this is considered my first flight, my first international flight, AND my first intercontinental flight too? I don't get it, to some people Southamerica and Northamerica are different continents. Oh well...
Captain Chaos January 6th, 2007, 02:18 PM First solo flight.... December 10th, '06. :cheers:
schmidt January 6th, 2007, 02:33 PM ^^ Yeah, solo flights!
Mine was on January 22nd, 2004. Florianopolis - Sao Paulo - Toronto. :runaway:
I was hell scared.
Nikom January 6th, 2007, 03:25 PM My first was Lisbon-Paris by Air France I was 6 years old and my first intercontinental flight was Paris-Atlanta by Delta Airlines and I was 10 years old :)
gonzo January 6th, 2007, 03:32 PM Lima --> Ottawa (8 months old)
...via Miami?, Toronto?
CessTenn January 6th, 2007, 10:57 PM Lima --> Ottawa (8 months old)
...via Miami?, Toronto?
Are you peruvian, Gonzo?
Yank in exile January 7th, 2007, 04:58 AM Seattle to Fort Lauderdale, 1986, aged 17 (via Dallas on the way, then Atlanta on the way back). My high school sent 33 students and 5 adults to the Everglades and Keys to study marine biology and play volleyball for two weeks spanning spring break. Pretty amazing for a big public school in a poor neighborhood. I got my scuba license for that trip.
Before that, my longest trip had been to Iowa by car. Two veery long days each way.
Hey, I'm going to hazard a guess that you went to Garfield? One of my closest friends in Seattle grew up on Capitol Hill, but participated in a voluntary busing project and went to Garfield because the school district established so many good programmes there.
My first flight was at the age of 10 months, from Seattle to Pittsburgh, where I was to be baptised at my mother's childhood parish in Mount Lebanon. All I was told about that flight was that, adventuresome creature that I was, when everyone's back was turned I climbed aboard the luggage conveyer belt at the airport because it looked like a good ride. Evidently someone noticed me missing and got me off the belt before I disappeared down the baggage chute.
First flight I remembered was a brief first-class hop to Portland in the final year of Union Pacific's operation (early 70s some time) to take a three-day train trip to Denver.
First international/intercontinental flight was San Francisco/London in 1978.
First time I jumped out of a plane was in Lodi, California in 1993—way more fun than staying inside!
alsen January 7th, 2007, 05:41 AM Kuching-Kuala Lumpur.2 or 3 yrs old.
Captain Chaos January 7th, 2007, 07:22 AM ^^ Yeah, solo flights!
Mine was on January 22nd, 2004. Florianopolis - Sao Paulo - Toronto. :runaway:
I was hell scared.
Eh? Your first solo flight and you went from Brazil-Canada? Nah schmidt, you may have been travelling by yourself but you wouldn't have been flying solo - that means FLYING the plane by yourself.
Yörch January 7th, 2007, 09:17 AM My first flight was when I was just 6 years old. It was just a 35 minutes flight through Aeromexico from Mexico City to Acapulco just 411km away...
diz January 7th, 2007, 10:23 AM 1st International Flight - MNL to NRT - 1998 - 5 years old
1st Domestic Flight - OAK to LAX - 1999 - 6 years old
Other Flights:
NRT to SFO
SFO to MNL (multiple times)
SFO to LAS
PDX to OAK (multiple times)
PDX to ICN
ICN to MNL
gladisimo January 7th, 2007, 06:22 PM First international flight - when I was 6, to Malaysia (Don't remember what city)
First intercontinental - when I was 9, to San Francisco
oz.fil January 7th, 2007, 06:34 PM First Flight: MNL-MEL 1996
First Domestic Flight: MEL-SYD 1999
First International Flight Alone: SYD-KIX 2006
=D
gonzo January 7th, 2007, 10:47 PM Are you peruvian, Gonzo?I'm 1/2 Peruvian (Spanish, Greek, Inca, Italian) :yes:...and 1/2 Canadian (Irish, Welsh).
Jayme January 10th, 2007, 04:43 AM my first time when i was 3 i was going to Lebanon useing Qantas and Middle East Airlines
LatvianGG January 10th, 2007, 09:21 AM Mine was Riga-Odessa at age of 6 , with Aeroflot's TU 154.
Brendan January 10th, 2007, 09:41 AM First International - When I was 6 I went to Suva, Fiji.
First Domestic - When I was 8 I went to Cairns, QLD, Australia.
Skyprince January 10th, 2007, 10:23 AM In 1986, when I was 1 year old, I flew from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Terengganu :) with mami and dedi
mhays January 13th, 2007, 08:50 AM Hey, I'm going to hazard a guess that you went to Garfield? One of my closest friends in Seattle grew up on Capitol Hill, but participated in a voluntary busing project and went to Garfield because the school district established so many good programmes there.
Darn right. We lived within the Garfield zone, also on Capitol Hill.
sharpie20 January 13th, 2007, 08:06 PM My first flight was when i was 10 months old, from shanghai hongqiao airport to LAX in in march of 1990.
Gandhi January 19th, 2007, 01:06 AM 1st International Flight: BAQ to CCS 1983 - 2 years old
1st Domestic Flight: BAQ to BOG - 1982 - 9 months old.
MasonicStage™ January 19th, 2007, 09:46 PM Mine was Zagreb-Madrid in August 2006. i'm so embarased:badnews:
and whats the most tragic- I'm 18
PanaManiac January 20th, 2007, 08:51 AM My first flight originated at PTY (Panama City) and culminated at SFO (San Francisco), but the flight was not direct, as I had stop at LAX (Los Angeles, the first port of entry from Latin America on the west coast) for immigration and customs.
Flights on final approach to SFO can be a bit unnerving, particularly for a first-time air traveler as I was then. From my perspective, as I looked out the window I could see that we were flying over San Francisco bay. No problem, except that the aircraft kept getting lower and lower while we were still over water, and to the best of my recollection, I hadn't boarded a seaplane. I swear the plane was no higher than 10 feet off the ground when with eyes shut tight, I heard the rumble of landing gear on asphalt. The sound was music to my ears as I breathed a sigh of relief.
The dynamic is not onlike a mig landing on an aircraft carrier...
Príncipe January 21st, 2007, 01:32 AM My first flight was last year, from Porto Alegre (Brazil) to Buenos Aires (Argentina) by Gol (Brazilian airline). I was 23 years old, I feel ashamed 'cause many people here flew when they were like 1 month old...
Hochatas January 21st, 2007, 03:01 AM First Domestic: Mexico City- Acapulco ( 3 years old)
First International: Mexico City- Orlando FL. ( 6 years old)
tayser January 21st, 2007, 09:40 AM Round the world...... roughly: Melbourne - Singapore - Bahrain - London - Los Angeles - Honolulu - Auckland - Melbourne. 1984 when I was 2/3
MDguy January 22nd, 2007, 04:58 AM My first flight was from D.C. to orlando when I was 1
My first international flight was from philadelphia to kingston, Jamaica when I was 5
Zwanderlust January 22nd, 2007, 05:49 PM My first flight originated at PTY (Panama City) and culminated at SFO (San Francisco), but the flight was not direct, as I had stop at LAX (Los Angeles, the first port of entry from Latin America on the west coast) for immigration and customs.
Flights on final approach to SFO can be a bit unnerving, particularly for a first-time air traveler as I was then. From my perspective, as I looked out the window I could see that we were flying over San Francisco bay. No problem, except that the aircraft kept getting lower and lower while we were still over water, and to the best of my recollection, I hadn't boarded a seaplane. I swear the plane was no higher than 10 feet off the ground when with eyes shut tight, I heard the rumble of landing gear on asphalt. The sound was music to my ears as I breathed a sigh of relief.
The dynamic is not onlike a mig landing on an aircraft carrier...Reminds me of the screenplay for a short subject... Great drama! ;)
ØlandDK January 22nd, 2007, 10:30 PM Billund (DK) --> Heathrow - 45 min
Heathrow --> Harare --> Lilongwe - cac't remember how long it took
...I was 13 years old and staied in Malawi for 1,5 month...
svast January 23rd, 2007, 12:44 AM My first flight must have been at an Airshow when I was 9 or 10 years old. 15 odd minutes in a small one-engined private plane.
And I had to see in my archive for my second one. Wich also was my first international flight, Stockholm - Bromma to Münich. Just a week before I became 16 years of age in 1965.
Singidunum January 27th, 2007, 05:14 PM Belgrade-Tivat just like many other people here
QatPhils January 27th, 2007, 05:52 PM My first flight was from
Manila - Hong Kong in the 5* airline Cathay Pacific
I was 5 at that time
Davee January 27th, 2007, 06:01 PM Domestic: Christchurch - Auckland I was 3
International: Christchurch - Sydney I was18
gaucho January 28th, 2007, 03:19 AM Porto Alegre - Rio de Janeiro : I was 14 (days)
1ajs January 28th, 2007, 08:51 AM my first flight was probly the flight home from winnipeg to lynn lake after being born...
and many many other flights after that. my first flight by my self was when i was 5 Winnipeg to Calgary that i rember on canada 3000
first international flight/overseas was Toronto to Amsterdam on KLM when i was 9
Fede_Milan January 28th, 2007, 09:23 AM The first flight I can remember of, was Stockholm-Paris when I was 5.
Kane007 January 30th, 2007, 02:41 PM My first domestic was Auckland/Christchurch/Auckland 900+km, age 10.
My first long haul (also intercontinental) was Auckland/Los Angeles/Auckland, age 18.
Saigoneseguy January 30th, 2007, 03:02 PM My first flight: Saigon-Danang or Saigon-Hanoi 1995 or 1994, can't remember :p
First intenational flight: Saigon-Hong Kong 1998
AhChuan January 31st, 2007, 08:25 AM My 1st flight, Hong Kong.....7 years old
Tubeman January 31st, 2007, 10:42 AM London Gatwick to Kos (Greece) aged 15
dreamJJ February 5th, 2007, 04:37 PM when i was in 6 grade from cq to beijing
shugs February 5th, 2007, 04:43 PM I think it was London - Tel Aviv when i was 7... or it could have been London - Columbus, Ohio in the same year, memory kinda hazey :)
!~Nick~! February 7th, 2007, 08:56 AM my First flight..
Was to Seattle i was 7 ;]
mirza-sm February 8th, 2007, 11:16 PM 1st flight from Sarajevo to Stockholm (when i was 3 years old,i dont remember)
2nd flight from Copenhagen to Sarajevo which i also dont remember when i was 6...
3rd flight from Zagreb to Vancouver (over Frankfurt) last year which i do remember :)
tony1986 February 12th, 2007, 05:44 AM First one: Mexico City-Huatulco in Mexicana, 1988. I was 2 years old, don `t remember anything.
First international flight: Mexico-Miami, 1992 5 year old in a Mexicana new Airbus 320
First intercontinental flight: Mexico City-Barcelona via Amsterdam in a KLM 747-400 for MEX-AMS leg, and a 737-800 on the AMS-BCN leg(2006). 19 years old. Return flight wasn my latest flight and I was already 20.
gladisimo February 12th, 2007, 06:05 AM HK to Malaysia, when I was six
samsonyuen February 13th, 2007, 04:22 AM My first one was Toronto to Chicago via Detroit, that I remember.
bruin787 February 13th, 2007, 05:03 AM i remember it like it was yesterday. i was 3 years old. it was on an AeroMexico DC-10 flying from Tijuana to Mexico City just like this one...
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/janus020/aeromexico.jpg
Mesh22 March 11th, 2007, 12:39 PM 1st Domestic - Ansett Australia from Melbourne to Brisbane in 1988.
1st International - Air New Zealand from Melbourne to Auckland in Christmas 1989.
GlasgowMan March 11th, 2007, 04:54 PM 1st International Flight: Glasgow International to Larnaca, Caladonian Airways on a TriStar
1st Domest Flight: Glasgow International to London Gatwick, British Airways on a 737.
Dezz March 12th, 2007, 10:21 AM 1st flight: Brussels (Belgium) - Bodrum (Turkey)
TohrAlkimista March 13th, 2007, 04:38 PM 1st flight: Beyrut-Rome I was 3
Serm March 15th, 2007, 05:41 AM My first international flight: Bangkok (old airport) to Hong Kong (old airport) by Thai International Airway when I was 5 years old
My second international flight: Bangkok to Singapore by Singapore Airline when I was 9 years old
My first domestic flight: Bangkok to Phuket by Thai International Airway when I was 14 years old
Canadian Chocho March 15th, 2007, 05:49 AM Toronto-Atlanta or Miami, probably Miami-Caracas
About 6 yrs old.
Siopao March 16th, 2007, 07:25 AM Cebu-Tokyo Philippine Airlines when I was like 8 years old.
It was one of the most exiciting time in my childhood life.
*sigh*
...then eventually migrated to Toronto and had a new life. The End.
Pobbie March 17th, 2007, 11:03 PM Manchester-Faro when I was three.
Vertigo March 18th, 2007, 10:25 PM My first flight was Amsterdam - Lisbon. I think I was about 7 years old.
Oddly enough, I really enjoyed it back then, but when I flew again a couple of years later (to the USA) I had somehow developed a fear of flying... I really panicked on that flight... And while I fly regularly nowadays, I still have a fear of flying. Not very bad, but I still don't like it.
pacific_mzt March 20th, 2007, 04:59 AM my firts flight was mazatlan(MZT)-los angeles(LAX) when i was like 11 years old!
Insanedriver March 20th, 2007, 10:14 PM My first flight - Manila-Riyadh
all i remember is that the company is Saudia and
a stewardes gave me an airplane toy... nice:cheers:
DarkLite March 21st, 2007, 02:33 AM My first flight was on TACA from San Salvador to Washington DC. I was 3
Jayme March 21st, 2007, 04:33 AM my flight was in 1991 when i was 3 to Lebanon
cncity March 22nd, 2007, 05:36 AM My first ever flight was in 2003 from Mumbai to Toronto. i was 20 then.
Skyman April 14th, 2007, 08:00 AM International: San Francisco - London
Domestic: Atlanta - Tampa
bagel April 14th, 2007, 08:04 AM Manila to Cebu when I was five years old. The plane was BAC 1-11.
My first transcontinental flight was Manila-Tokyo-New York on a Japan Airlines 747. We had to stay overnight at Narita.
M3_SoutheastMelb April 14th, 2007, 08:16 AM Melbourne to Vienna in a boeing 777 when I was 11.
Purple Dreams April 14th, 2007, 11:12 AM New York-Casablanca when I was 1 month and a half.
Mahratta April 14th, 2007, 05:36 PM Mumbai to Muscat when I was less than a month old.
My friend flew from London to Toronto a day after he was born. :\
mariano90_arg April 14th, 2007, 08:17 PM My first flight was to Miami (from Buenos Aires). when I was 11.
The second was to Miami, too
The third one was in a little plane that flyed (?) over Esquel, Argentina Patagonia.
The fourth was to Miami, again.. (my grandma really like the beaches, jeje. she paid everything)
When I was 14 I went to Milano, from there I went to Catania to visit some relatives I have never seen before.
Yardmaster April 15th, 2007, 07:13 PM My first flight was in a little Cessna- I was ten or eleven at the time. The pilot was Brian Naylor, subsequently anchor-man for for one of the local commercial station's news services.
Why was I there? Well, I -or perhaps my Mum- was a fan of "Swallows Juniors"- a TV show during which kids about my age sang very sweetly, and which we watched rigorously every week.
TV was only a few years old. Anyway, my birthday earmarked me for this flight ... lucky date, a flight with Brian: so there I was ... at Moorabbin Airport. Probably the first time my parents ever entrusted me to anyone they absolutely didn't know.
There was a little girl in the back seat, her birthday was the same as mine, but she was much younger, so they let her bring her parents along as well. I was in the front seat alone, with Brian.
As the plane dipped and yowled, I grabbed for the controls, which were angling around in front of me.
"Get your hands off them!" said Brian. I obeyed.
Don't remember much about that flight. except what was going on in the plane ... the little girl was being comforted by her parents.
Brian went on to be a notable anchor-man: "Ask Brian: He knows".
Filip April 15th, 2007, 07:54 PM I was about 2 years old - domestic flight from Belgrade to Tivat, by the coast.
My first intercontinental flight was when I was 5 years old: Geneva - Zurich (Swissair Fokker 100), Zurich - Toronto (Swissair MD11) RIP!
poshbakerloo April 15th, 2007, 08:05 PM London-Switzerland when i was 1!
-=+cZaRiNa+=- May 2nd, 2007, 01:07 PM First flight: Cebu to Cagayan de Oro (Philippine Airlines) when I was 6.
Thorin May 2nd, 2007, 02:13 PM My first flight was Milan Malpensa - Sharm el Sheik with a B757 Transavia. I was 3 years old.
isaidso May 2nd, 2007, 05:47 PM London - Helsinki when I was 5 years old on FinnAir.
FFM2007 May 2nd, 2007, 06:02 PM i think for me it was Frankfurt-Fuerteventura when i was 4 years old!
ch1le May 2nd, 2007, 07:43 PM From Tallinn to London. I think i was about 6-7
Bahnsteig4 May 3rd, 2007, 01:44 AM Vienna-Izmir on an Istanbul Airlines 727 in the early nineties. (I think I was four, so it must have been 1991 or 1992.)
Very obscure airline, went belly up a little later.
However, my love affair with commercial aviation started back then, when the flight crew let me sit o the FO's seat.
Exactly 96 commercial flights followed this one and I loved each and every second.
Moments to cherish:
Approaching SYD with a view of the city,
The good old DL Tristar to and from Hawaii,
Cockpit visits in a BA 742, an NG CR1, the exact SR MD11 that later crashed off Halifax,
Jumpseat flights on HG (CDG-VIE) and OS (VIE-FRA),
experiencing midnight sun over the Arctic between Alaska and Europe,
the view of Grand Canyon on ZRH-LAX,
being on board a 707 between DUB and VIE,
seeing BA's first 777 land at PAE,
Hawaiian island hopping on ATRs and first generation 737s,
sunset above Afghanistan,
sunrise above the Southern Alps and the Tasman Sea,
and so on....
Yes, I do like traveling on planes. ;)
Bahnsteig4 May 3rd, 2007, 01:48 AM By the way, my first intercontinental flight was VIE-MUC-LAX vv (Vienna-Munich-Los Angeles) on OE-LAU, a Lauda Air 767-300ER.
Insomniac May 3rd, 2007, 03:10 AM Technically, my first filght was from Birmingham, AL to Okinawa, Japan (by way of Chicago and Tokyo).
But this is what my mother told me. The first one I remember was a short, 1 1/2 hour flight from Birmingham to Orlando.
Quall May 4th, 2007, 02:19 AM My first and only flight - Sudbury to Hamilton to Ottawa on a Westjet Boeing 737. I was 9 or 10.
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