I just about had a heart attack when, mid-flight, the co-pilot rolled down his window. It was this tiny 16-seater plane where you could see all the way in to the cockpit. Their airsick bags had little stick figure illustrations, and the lady stick figure had a sari on. I was on a flight from Nepalgunj to Jumla in Nepal with an airline called Yeti Air. It really touched me that a complete stranger would remember how excited I was about something like that, and ask me about it after we had stopped talking. She nudged me and said, “Keep looking!” Eventually I saw them (they were beautiful) and told her. With my forehead pressed into the window, I was intent on seeing these lights.Īfter a few minutes of that, I hear from next to me, “Do you see the Christmas lights yet?” I started tearing up, and I turned to her and shook my head. A few hours later we began our descent, and I had forgotten our previous conversation. I told her about how my dad told me to look for all the Christmas lights up on the houses as we were close to landing. I hadn’t seen my family since they hugged me goodbye on move-in day in August. The flight we were on was close to Christmas, and I was flying home for winter break. We asked each other standard questions, like what college I go to and what college her daughter goes to. I befriended the older woman next to me, and our conversation was one I’ll never forget. I will never forget the kindness and compassion they showed me that day.Ĭanso – Reddit The best seat in the entire plane I was still upset about my dad, but the crew from that flight was able to help me forget about it. The flight attendant brought me snacks and juice, and the pilots talked to me about everything they were doing.Īfter the plane landed, before I got off the plane, they gave me a set of pilot wings. They even gave me a headset to wear so I could listen to the air traffic controllers. Behind the door to the cockpit there was a fold down seat on which I got to sit for the whole flight. They took me to the front of the plane and introduced me to the pilot and copilot. Not two minutes later did a flight attendant come up to my seat and inform me that the captain had invited me to sit in the cockpit. I walked down the jet way, sobbing as I got to my seat.
I had to do this every year, and every year, it tore me apart. When they called for boarding, I started to cry.
My dad and I were waiting at the gate for me to board the plane to go home to my mom. Every year my dad would fly me down to visit for a few weeks in the summer, and that was the only time I got to see him. My parents divorced when I was very young, and my dad moved to another city when I was 8. At the end of the flight, he shook my hand and gave me the cowboy hat. He had a conversation with me the entire flight, breaking down in tears at one point, and all I did was look at him and nod occasionally.
I was seated next to a guy in a cowboy hat one time who only spoke Spanish (I believe). We thought we’d like you to reminisce on your memories on air, so to jolt your memories, we scour the web for the head-scratching, smile-inducing, most unforgettable stories of their experience on an airplane. In light of the numerous travel restrictions put in place, we’re feeling almost nostalgic about getting into a plane and flying to a new place and for the cute, sweet stories that happen in between, like the one above. I have to break the news to them, he writes, weaving some humour about tired parents and their kids on flights. I remember reading about this pilot who wrote to Reader’s Digestabout mothers who entered the massive plane and looked for playrooms for their children, fully confident that there would be one for their kids on long flights.