ARCHIVE: AA Celebrity Sightings and Related - 2000-2012
Sep 7, 2002, 5:30 pm
#136
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Oceanside, NY USA
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Gordie Howe on a Toronto-Edmonton flight. Absolutely one of the nicest people you could meet.
Sep 8, 2002, 4:49 am
#137
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Has anyone flown with Oprah? Her show says that American Airlines is their 'Official Carrier'...
Sep 8, 2002, 7:26 am
#138
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: "Did you ever see Dallas from an MD-80 at night?" just doesn't have the same ring to it...
Posts: 1,685
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by howellajohnson:
Has anyone flown with Oprah? Her show says that American Airlines is their 'Official Carrier'...</font>
Has anyone flown with Oprah? Her show says that American Airlines is their 'Official Carrier'...</font>
Sep 8, 2002, 7:59 am
#139
Join Date: Dec 2001
Programs: AA PLT 2MM
Posts: 573
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Fishbait:
AA newcomer here, first flight last week (CO defector, lol)..
Raymond's Mom from Everybody Loves Raymond...</font>
AA newcomer here, first flight last week (CO defector, lol)..
Raymond's Mom from Everybody Loves Raymond...</font>
Sep 8, 2002, 9:10 am
#140
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Ft Worth, Texas
Programs: AA/UA/BA
Posts: 2,850
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Fishbait:
Raymond's Mom from Everybody Loves Raymond..
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Raymond's Mom from Everybody Loves Raymond..
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What about the King of Queens? I thought it was about a gay bloke.... I guess the term 'queen' has a different meaning here in the UK?
Sep 8, 2002, 9:18 am
#141
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: SJC
Programs: AA 2MM PLT, HH Gold, Marriott Silver
Posts: 612
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by 777Brit:
What about the King of Queens? I thought it was about a gay bloke.... I guess the term 'queen' has a different meaning here in the UK?</font>
What about the King of Queens? I thought it was about a gay bloke.... I guess the term 'queen' has a different meaning here in the UK?</font>
OT: The only celeb I've ever seen is Ronnie Lott (Hall of Fame football player) at SJC.
Sep 8, 2002, 9:50 pm
#142
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Irvine, CA, AA Lifetime PLT, 7MM
Posts: 225
Shelley Long, FC, BOS - LAX around 1995?
Howard Stern, FC, LAX - JFK redeye around 1997.
LAX-BNA: several from the music industry whose names I do not remember.
JNB-IAH: 1982: Gerrie Coetzee (former world heavyweight champion) wife and kids.
Howard Stern, FC, LAX - JFK redeye around 1997.
LAX-BNA: several from the music industry whose names I do not remember.
JNB-IAH: 1982: Gerrie Coetzee (former world heavyweight champion) wife and kids.
Sep 9, 2002, 12:13 am
#143
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Irvine:
LAX-BNA: several from the music industry whose names I do not remember.
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LAX-BNA: several from the music industry whose names I do not remember.
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Sep 9, 2002, 12:22 am
#144
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: (SNA) Orange County, California USA
Posts: 3,641
For additional Celebrity Sightings (various airlines), please see:
FlyerTalk Miles/MilesBuzz!/Celebrity Seat Mates
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/004882
FlyerTalk Miles/FlyerTalk Community/CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/002111
FlyerTalk Miles/Continental/Celebrity Sightings?
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum20/HTML/006097
FlyerTalk Miles/Northwest/Celebs on NW
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum35/HTML/003902
FlyerTalk Miles/United/celebrity sightings
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/014479
FlyerTalk Travel/OMNI/Celebrity Sightings
www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum44/HTML/004147
FlyerTalk Travel/TravelBuzz!/Celebrity sightings ... (8 pages!)
www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum11/HTML/007150
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The older I get, the less I understand life and people.
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FlyerTalk Miles/MilesBuzz!/Celebrity Seat Mates
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/004882
FlyerTalk Miles/FlyerTalk Community/CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum95/HTML/002111
FlyerTalk Miles/Continental/Celebrity Sightings?
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum20/HTML/006097
FlyerTalk Miles/Northwest/Celebs on NW
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum35/HTML/003902
FlyerTalk Miles/United/celebrity sightings
www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/014479
FlyerTalk Travel/OMNI/Celebrity Sightings
www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum44/HTML/004147
FlyerTalk Travel/TravelBuzz!/Celebrity sightings ... (8 pages!)
www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum11/HTML/007150
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The older I get, the less I understand life and people.
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Sep 11, 2002, 12:13 pm
#145
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 75
Bo Jackson Last fall from ORD to MIA, First class, was coming to Miami for business and play golf.
Sep 11, 2002, 1:04 pm
#146
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Alexandria, VA USA; AA PLT, US GLD, HH GLD, HYT GLD
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My wife and I sat next to Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin in the bulkhead of FC DCA-DFW.
Same trip, on return, ran into Bobby Bonilla at the Hertz counter returning my car at TUC.
Same trip, TUC-DFW, sat behind Len Mattice (PGA tour) in FC, and Woody Austin (PGA) sat in the back of the bus.
Same trip, DFW-DCA, sat in front of Sen & Mrs Jon Kyle (R-AZ) and Rep. & Mrs. Sam Johnson (R-X) in FC.
Same trip saw Cheryl Miller in the DFW terminal.
All other trips over the years, n one famous, but that one trip in Feb of this year, all at once.
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Same trip, on return, ran into Bobby Bonilla at the Hertz counter returning my car at TUC.
Same trip, TUC-DFW, sat behind Len Mattice (PGA tour) in FC, and Woody Austin (PGA) sat in the back of the bus.
Same trip, DFW-DCA, sat in front of Sen & Mrs Jon Kyle (R-AZ) and Rep. & Mrs. Sam Johnson (R-X) in FC.
Same trip saw Cheryl Miller in the DFW terminal.
All other trips over the years, n one famous, but that one trip in Feb of this year, all at once.
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Sep 11, 2002, 1:34 pm
#147
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: IAH TX USA
Programs: AA PLT LT & 2MM, HH D, MAR PLT EL LT
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New York - LGA to Chicago - Elvis Stoiyko (spellinging??) the canadian skater, who won a silver will a pulled groin muscle, (that seems very painful to me). Boy he is a lot shorter than I expected.
Chicago - Dallas - Stanley Marcus, Neimen Marcus founder, boy he was old, he pass away about a year after I saw him.
Toronto - LAX - Donald Sutherland, boy his voice is one you can't miss, I heard him before I saw him.
Celebrity must 1) Fly themselves (or get a private plane), 2) eat themselves (although some don't obviously do much of that, or 3) Use the Toilets themselves. So look at the Airport, Restaurants and don't forget to check the restrooms.
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Chicago - Dallas - Stanley Marcus, Neimen Marcus founder, boy he was old, he pass away about a year after I saw him.
Toronto - LAX - Donald Sutherland, boy his voice is one you can't miss, I heard him before I saw him.
Celebrity must 1) Fly themselves (or get a private plane), 2) eat themselves (although some don't obviously do much of that, or 3) Use the Toilets themselves. So look at the Airport, Restaurants and don't forget to check the restrooms.
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Sep 11, 2002, 1:43 pm
#148
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: DFW - AA EXP, SPG PLT, Hilton DIA, Hyatt - PLT, Hertz Prez
Posts: 787
Aishwarya Rai former Ms World and Ms India.
BA from London to Geneve
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BA from London to Geneve
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Sep 11, 2002, 1:48 pm
#149
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Miami Beach, FL
Programs: AA EXP 3MM, BA Gold
Posts: 876
As previously posted in a similar thread...
The LAX-JFK route is chock full of celebs. I've sat next to or near a few over the past couple of years: Farrah Fawcett, Cher, Sandra Bullock, Courtney Cox-Arquette, William Baldwin, Grace Jones, Tom Brokaw, Marlowe Thomas. On different routes, I've had flights with Rosie O'Donnell, Ann Richards (then governor of Texas), Troy Aikman, Pete Sampras.
Nicest were Ann Richards and Tom Brokaw. Rudest by a landslide was Marlowe Thomas - she got in a big argument with a FA about who was going to put her carryons in the overhead.
Weirdest was definitely Farrah Fawcett. For the whole flight, she'd argue with her assistant for about 15 minutes and then stalk off to the lavatory. After about 20 minutes, the assistant would go knock on the door and beg her to come out, and after 10 minutes of that Farrah would return to her seat. Then the whole thing would start over again!
Oh, I almost forgot. Last March I flew JFK-LHR on AA with Fergie. She boarded at the last minute, slept the whole way, and was escorted from the plane by security. When we were all standing up to deplane, though, she bashed my friend in the head with her carry-on! She was quite apologetic, though my friend was too thrilled to need an apology... Fergie might not be a princess anymore, but she still gets to bypass immigration and customs. Her people led her down the jetway stairs to a waiting car with police escort and off they went.
More recently, sat behind Liza and her new husband and across the aisle from Dionne Warwick on a redeye LAX-JFK. They didn't even acknowledge each other, but then I saw a newspaper item about Dionne being at the Liza wedding just a few days later. Kinda weird...
Last month, Donna Hanover (Giuliani) and her kids were on a redeye LGB-JFK with several bodyguards. They sat in Y but filled the F bins with their carryons when they were preboarded.
The LAX-JFK route is chock full of celebs. I've sat next to or near a few over the past couple of years: Farrah Fawcett, Cher, Sandra Bullock, Courtney Cox-Arquette, William Baldwin, Grace Jones, Tom Brokaw, Marlowe Thomas. On different routes, I've had flights with Rosie O'Donnell, Ann Richards (then governor of Texas), Troy Aikman, Pete Sampras.
Nicest were Ann Richards and Tom Brokaw. Rudest by a landslide was Marlowe Thomas - she got in a big argument with a FA about who was going to put her carryons in the overhead.
Weirdest was definitely Farrah Fawcett. For the whole flight, she'd argue with her assistant for about 15 minutes and then stalk off to the lavatory. After about 20 minutes, the assistant would go knock on the door and beg her to come out, and after 10 minutes of that Farrah would return to her seat. Then the whole thing would start over again!
Oh, I almost forgot. Last March I flew JFK-LHR on AA with Fergie. She boarded at the last minute, slept the whole way, and was escorted from the plane by security. When we were all standing up to deplane, though, she bashed my friend in the head with her carry-on! She was quite apologetic, though my friend was too thrilled to need an apology... Fergie might not be a princess anymore, but she still gets to bypass immigration and customs. Her people led her down the jetway stairs to a waiting car with police escort and off they went.
More recently, sat behind Liza and her new husband and across the aisle from Dionne Warwick on a redeye LAX-JFK. They didn't even acknowledge each other, but then I saw a newspaper item about Dionne being at the Liza wedding just a few days later. Kinda weird...
Last month, Donna Hanover (Giuliani) and her kids were on a redeye LGB-JFK with several bodyguards. They sat in Y but filled the F bins with their carryons when they were preboarded.
Sep 11, 2002, 2:23 pm
#150
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: CA - AA-PLAT 2.1 mmiles, Priority GLD, MP member, Delta Member, HHonors
Posts: 45
Shakira, on a flight from Bogota to Miami (business class and I was next to her).
Goldie Hawn --> LAX-JFK
Chayanne (in first)Red eye from LAX-MIA also on the same row
Michael Johnson (Basketball)- San Francisco - LAX.
The main actor from The Pretender AC in LAX
English singer (from Roling Stones?) From MIA to Madrid - in first class.
Sat next to Aaron Spelling the day Lady Di had the accident from LAX to LHR (in first)
one of the main characters from Seinfeld (George) - same hotel in Maui last Christmas, with his family.
The big guy (police in NYPD Blue) making a line at the SBA airport.
Goldie Hawn --> LAX-JFK
Chayanne (in first)Red eye from LAX-MIA also on the same row
Michael Johnson (Basketball)- San Francisco - LAX.
The main actor from The Pretender AC in LAX
English singer (from Roling Stones?) From MIA to Madrid - in first class.
Sat next to Aaron Spelling the day Lady Di had the accident from LAX to LHR (in first)
one of the main characters from Seinfeld (George) - same hotel in Maui last Christmas, with his family.
The big guy (police in NYPD Blue) making a line at the SBA airport.