• Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz
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    Airline “crop duster”. And he did loops for me. Take that, all you boring airliners!

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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.

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    How in the world do you remember the first airline you flew in much less the first twenty?

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      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.

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      2 years ago

      Twenty?? Jesus, not everyone is able to travel that much.

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        It’s not really traveling that much. Depending on how old you are that could be 0-1 times a year.

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      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.

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      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.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    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.

  • Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml
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    Ryanair when I was around 13/14yo. I wasn’t expecting something like business class on a A380, but boi that was a surprise. But I still enjoyed the take off.

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    Kingfisher Airlines (India).

    When it was operative, it was luxury flight at same “ordinary” prices as other airlines.

    They were amazing back then.

  • eric@lemmy.ca
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    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.