My first flight was Chicago - Kansas City with a friend of mine - they were having a $39 RT special or something really low like that on, was it Kiwi or American - I don't remember. Uneventful. Enjoyed Kansas City. Don't know how I acquired a hatred of flying - maybe it was the time our plane lost power at 35,000 feet over the Caribbean briefly, or maybe experiences like flying Southwest last winter during that big tornado system and suffering turbulence nearly the entire flight!