Most famous person you ever had on board ?!

[Flycatcher99]

From both ends of the spectrum:

Eva Longoria (Parker, at the time) and Don Knotts.

Eva is really short and wears sunglasses on the airplane at night. Don Knotts looks exactly like he did on TV, down to the leisure suit and tennis shoes.

 

[waveflyer]

The title of the thread asks for the "most" famous person one has flown. After many years in the airline business I have flown many famous people but if I had to name one.........

President Ronald Reagan. Many believe he is worthy of being on Mount Rushmore. The most humble, gentle man one could ever meet. What an honor.

Many think you're nostalgic and Reagan would never survive a republican primary.

He's also a union buster, racked up massive debt with voodoo economic policies we still fight today-, but very cool that you got to meet him. It would've been an honor for me as well.

 

[IslandDriver]

President Obama....of course he was only the Jr. Senator from Illinois then.
Ted Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
Al Charptin
Buddy Cianci
Molly Price
Buz Aldren
Senator Reed
Governor Chaffee

 

[jonjuan]

Rode the hotel van to the airport with Ron Jeremy. He was pretty impressed with me.

Are you a she-male?

 

[8v8ter]

Had Cindy Crawford on to SJD. Very quiet and looks better in real life than the pictures. Gary Busey pops his head in the Cockpit in YVR and startled us. Crazy eyes and all.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa, back in '98 on a ACA Jetstream 32 IAD-JFK. They were connecting to a Air France Concorde to Paris. I guess their travel agent screwed up somewhere... Nice people, seemed more content to be on that plane than most of our regular pax.

He was probably just in awe wondering where the flight engineer, radio operator and navigator would be seated.

 

[737tanker]

I flew Charles Bronson on a Beech 99 from BOS to LEB when I flew for an Easter Express Commuter.

 

[skypine69]

Are you a she-male?

Would that excite you if I am?

 

[jonjuan]

Would that excite you if I am?

Would it excite Ron Jeremy? It appears so. Was he licking his lips?

 

[skypine69]

Would it excite Ron Jeremy? It appears so. Was he licking his lips?

He was licking something.

 

[aveator]

Only 5 pages for this thread to go downhill...

 

[Chest Rockwell]

Tony Bennett
John and Rebecca Romaine Stamos (before she left him for the fat kid from "Stand By Me"). Full flight, they sat in our old lounge seats (two rows facing each other) and could not have been nicer to the FAs and other pax.
George W. (while his dad was still in office)
Wilt Chamberlain about 6 months before he passed away. MCI-LAX the morning after his jersey/number had been retired at Kansas. Could not have been nicer. Offered to autograph anything for passengers as long as it was okay with the crew.
Barry Sanders. Quiet gentleman. Unassuming and sought absolutely no recognition. Kudos to his parents for raising him right.

 

[767/757]

John F. kennedy Jr. and his wife. Talked about flying and the importance of getting an insurance rating as soon as possible. Very nice guy, such a loss.

 

[canyonblue]

John F. kennedy Jr. and his wife. Talked about flying and the importance of getting an insurance rating as soon as possible. Very nice guy, such a loss.

Maybe an "Instrument" rating would have been better for him.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Disregard.

 

[check six]

Buzz Aldrin. Just a decent guy. Did not seek attention but gets a lot of that.

Check Six.

 

[767/757]

John F. kennedy Jr. and his wife. Talked about flying and the importance of getting an insurance rating as soon as possible. Very nice guy, such a loss.

Yes, Instrument rating - spell checker!

 

[bigboeings]

Interesting thread for a change. I flew Jerry Stiller LGA ACK in a BE1900, super nice. Jfk Jr.and his wife, also nice. Janet Reno, busy. Did a week tour with the WWE in Europe, Rick Flair was a flirt, the refs were the best they gave us front row seats for the show in Berlin. Picked up the set crew in Spain along with Cameron Diaz and took them to LA. She is just like she acts in the movies, super bubbly and nice.
Last but least in 2008 flew then Senator Obama around on his campaign. The Secret Service was great, the Senator, well I could tell I was just one of the little people. Great experience though.

 

[hammer2]

in 4 years working for Swift Aviation mainly supporting NetJets, I can safely say I've flown over 200 famous and super famous celebs.. I wouldn't' even know where to start the list..

In the end they were just as human as any of us.. move on, nothing to see here.

"4 years and 200 famous celebs" while backing up Netjets? Isn't that number a little high?

 

[B190Captain]

Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and their kids on a flight from the Bahamas to FLL. Oliver North from DCA to Louisville, KY.

 

[big shacks]

Peter Mayhew AKA Cheewbacca from Paducah to Memphis on a Saab.��

 

[metrodriver808]

Louis CK, KIND-KLGA

 

[RJLoser]

Louis CK, KIND-KLGA

You're probably fodder for his bits now. He does some awesome aviation stuff.

 

[Dgpr]

We flew a charter to Cleveland area once to take Stevie Nicks to a concert she was doing. Nice, but she moved slow and looked like an old lady when she got on the airplane. Her manager hooks us up with backstage passes and prime seats for the show....
Concert starts, music comes up and out she comes, gorgeous and spinning and dancing. Co-capt and I look at each other and say "is that the same woman we brought over here?"
Backstage we meet this retired Delta Capt. who said he flew Fleetwood Mac on their first US tour and they always requested him for years afterward. Whenever she had shows in the midwest her manager would call him and invite him to come by. Her whole group was pretty awesome to us that night...

 

[Dornier 335]

Anybody here had GL on board, or even better on the j/s?

 

[thruthemurk]

Donald Sutherland, John Stewart, George Hamilton, Sade, Bill Maher, Lisa Marie Presley, Steven Tyler, Yasmin Bleeth, Dick Cheney (Halliburton years),Dr Ruth, Henry Winkler

Also Will Farrell, Gwen Stefani and Alfred Molina as fellow passengers in First Class while commuting trans con.

 

[Freebrd]

Anybody here had GL on board, or even better on the j/s?

he tried but all those choc sundaes from DQ and her fat arse couldn't fit thru the door :beer:

 

[RightBettor]

Story Musgrave flying into FLL years ago. Nice guy. Liked to talk about flying and space exploration stuff. Chatted with us after the flight for about 15 mins. Very friendly and chatty. Nothing nice to say about NASA for sure!

Paul Hewson (Bono). Friendly and chatty w/ the FAs. Brought his own sack lunch from Eisten Bagel. Go figure, for a guy who lives on a shoe-string budget! Ha ha! Short dude!

Billy Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian from Star Wars movies). Up there in age. Trouble walking. Wheelchair on and off. Needed assistance from handler to get to/from lavatory. Nice guy, quiet.

Eva Longoria, seemed miffed. Need I say more?

Louie Anderson. Going Vegas to Burbank to do a TV appearance. Then said he had to go back to vegas that evening to do two stand up shows. Complained of being worn out and tired. Nice guy, just looked beat.

Lars Ulrich, drummer for Metallica. Seems like a nice enough guy. Chatted with fans in the jetway. Short dude too. (What is it with rock stars?)

Richard Kiel (Jaws from Moonraker). Huge dude!!! Had back problems/hunch-back and I was amazed he could take a seat in the Brasilia. (LAX-FAT)

 

[say again]

Bill Clinton, John McCain, Boomer Esiason, Michael Crichton, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sean Hannity, Wendy Williams, David Koch, WWE wrestlers, etc. Im sure there are a few more I'm missing

 

[booo]

Most famous person you ever had on board ?!

JC. Not a pax, but my F/O !!! Kind of a pain though. Thought he knew EVERYTHING !!!

Never had a delay, never had to divert. The weather just seemed to clear up for us.

Got tired of tuna sandwiches by the end of the bid.