ARCHIVE: AA Celebrity Sightings and Related - 2000-2012
Nov 12, 2007, 9:41 am
#1576
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wilmette, IL
Programs: AAdvantage Gold, MileagePlus Premier Silver
Posts: 11
In 2002, Faye Dunaway, LAXBOS. She was in coach, and was carrying a large bag of wire hangers.
Nov 12, 2007, 12:44 pm
#1577
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Laguna Niguel, CA
Programs: AA PLT, 1.8mm
Posts: 6,988
Nov 13, 2007, 12:50 am
#1578
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: LAX
Programs: AA Plat, DL, NWA US, BA
Posts: 88
Lance Bass in F on JFK-LAX last year. It was after he had just broken up with Reichen and he looked very happy.
John Mayer, carrying his own guitar case and waiting for his luggage at baggage claim at LAX. Took me a while to figure out who he was, very low key.
John Mayer, carrying his own guitar case and waiting for his luggage at baggage claim at LAX. Took me a while to figure out who he was, very low key.
Nov 13, 2007, 11:25 am
#1579
Join Date: Feb 2006
Programs: AA Platinum, HHonors Gold VIP
Posts: 379
I was sitting in the Evansville airport a week or 2 ago and this elder lady asked me if I would watch her bags for her while she went to the bathroom. I was busy reading a book and really didn't think about what she said until after she had walked away.
We had just passed through security and I knew she was harmless so I just sat there until she came back.
She sat back down next to me and started talking my ear off eventually mentioning that her son had just won his 3rd World Series with the Red Sox that week. Come to find out, she was Curt Schilling's mom and she told me more about his life (childhood, how many kids he has, what his future plans are, etc.) than I ever cared to know. She was nice though so I just sat and listened to her and eventually helped her put her bag on the gate check cart because she couldn't hardly lift it.
We had just passed through security and I knew she was harmless so I just sat there until she came back.
She sat back down next to me and started talking my ear off eventually mentioning that her son had just won his 3rd World Series with the Red Sox that week. Come to find out, she was Curt Schilling's mom and she told me more about his life (childhood, how many kids he has, what his future plans are, etc.) than I ever cared to know. She was nice though so I just sat and listened to her and eventually helped her put her bag on the gate check cart because she couldn't hardly lift it.
Nov 16, 2007, 9:24 pm
#1580
Join Date: Jun 2005
Programs: UA 1K, AA GLD, MRT GLD, HYT PLT, Fairmont PLT, SPG PLT
Posts: 142
Jerry Rice
Sat in front of Jerry Rice today. SJC to ORD on flight 1174. He was in F (row 4). Everyone left him alone but the flight attendants who kept coming up with things to sign for their grandkids.
Nov 17, 2007, 7:40 am
#1581
Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Siesta Key
Programs: AA EXP-1.6MM, Hilton Diamond, ManU & Chicago Bears #1 Fan
Posts: 9,697
Gave him my seat, aisle, bulkhead on a flight last year, in exchange for his autographed BP. He wasn't happy with row 4 aisle seat. I guess it has something to do with his looooong legs.
As a Chicago Bears fan I hated the 49er but I respected him. He was a great football player.
Nov 17, 2007, 11:39 am
#1582
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, NY
Programs: BAEC Gold, Delta Platinum, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold, AMEX Platinum (US)
Posts: 18,487
Nov 18, 2007, 10:32 pm
#1583
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Charlotte, NC
Programs: AA CK & Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 300
AA4 LAX-JFK Nov17
Sat next to Tiffany Pollard (I Love New York) in F she was in the first row aisle on the left side. She drank and drank and watched a movie and was very quiet and kept to herself 
Couple people asked for her autograph while boarding but no AA agent or CS was with her!
Couple people asked for her autograph while boarding but no AA agent or CS was with her!
Nov 18, 2007, 11:28 pm
#1584
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Norwalk, CT
Programs: AA Plat 2MM, DL Gold, SPG Plat, HH Diamond
Posts: 479
Ted Kennedy
Today (11/18) LGA-BOS. The 3:05 PM was delayed till 4:05, some of us got on the standby list for the 4:00, thought I was going to clear, then Kennedy came over as well, his name never went on the stand by list, but he and his companion cleared.
Nov 19, 2007, 6:44 am
#1585
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 229
Lasy year on the 1000AM flight from BUR to DFW, Cedric the Entertainer sat behind me in F. At first I did not recognize him as he was wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. He was pretty quiet during the flight and no one nothered him. My only celebrity sighting on AA so far...
Nov 19, 2007, 10:56 am
#1586
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Coppell, TX
Programs: AA EXP (1M+), HH Diamond, Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 384
Yesterday DFW-SLC, Dick Bass (owner of Snowbird) in F. Very nice man; we talked the entire flight and I was able to learn a lot about his life. Too bad there isn't any snow here...
Nov 19, 2007, 11:34 am
#1587
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: SAN, IND or SIB
Programs: double EX-PLT
Posts: 74
Back in the early 80s a guy my uncle worked with got an upgrade to F on his way to a big meeting in DC. He had tons of engineering paperwork and drawings (he worked for the Marine Corps depot in San Diego) all over his lap.
The guy next to him commented on all the work he had to do and they chatted for a few minutes before my uncle's friend asked the guy what he did.
The guy said "I wish you didn't have to ask that, I'm an actor." It was Clint Eastwood.
Does seeing Larry Craig heading for the airport men's room count as a sighting?
The guy next to him commented on all the work he had to do and they chatted for a few minutes before my uncle's friend asked the guy what he did.
The guy said "I wish you didn't have to ask that, I'm an actor." It was Clint Eastwood.
Does seeing Larry Craig heading for the airport men's room count as a sighting?
Nov 20, 2007, 2:53 am
#1588
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Scarsdale, NY USA; LT PLT AA; AA 3 mm (4 mm will never happen); Hilton Diamond, Marriott Silver, AA is clueless why I fly
Posts: 754
Nov 24, 2007, 4:44 am
#1589
Join Date: Jun 2003
Programs: AA EXP / 1.7 MM, Marriott Platinum, HH Gold
Posts: 219
Aa 293 Del-ord 11/22
Had the "pleasure" of witnessing Jesse Jackson boarding with me on this flight. He magnanimously threw 500 Indian rupees (roughly $13) at the two peons who brought down his carry-ons and loudly declared "You two split this ok? Split it between the two of you."
Very uninspiring.
Very uninspiring.
Nov 24, 2007, 2:57 pm
#1590
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: MEL/LAX
Programs: AAdv GLD(MM), QF LTS, UA MP_nada, HH Gld, SPG, GoldenCircle Jade
Posts: 4,472
Had the "pleasure" of witnessing Jesse Jackson boarding with me on this flight. He magnanimously threw 500 Indian rupees (roughly $13) at the two peons who brought down his carry-ons and loudly declared "You two split this ok? Split it between the two of you."
Very uninspiring.
Very uninspiring.