I was on a JFK-MCO L1011 in the early 70s. I really remember because they had a couple characters on the flight, but I don't know which flights they had them on. I remember they weren't on the flight back and I was pretty upset about it :D Unfortunately no FT back then to complain!

I used to fly BOS-MCO on Eastern frequently on visits to Disney World. The flight and equipment I always tried to get was their L1011. Flights 601/604 come to mind, but I don't have records. I think there were other flights utilizing smaller planes, but I used to try and get the L1011.

I was wrong: December of 1980. My mother flew us down so my grandparents could meet me.

How interesting that CO didn't change the name. I remember we came up with all kinds of new names for the FF when CO purchased EA but for the live of me I can't remember what names we invented.

I was trying to look this up - I actually think it was something else. I had thought OnePass came when CO/EA combined their FFPs.

CO used EA's name.

Note: Wasn't this one of the Trivia Quiz questions at DO IV?

YouTube - Eastern "If You Had Wings" Ride at WDW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxmWj...om=PL&index=36

OMG, I LOVED that ride!!!

My parents always ordered us the Kosher meals.

I remember Eastern
 

My very first flight was an Eastern flight from GSO-CLT for my 13th birthday for a visit to the circus. I flew EA back and forth numerous times to boarding school from NC to PA always stopping over at DCA. The only bad thing I remember was always getting airsick---almost certainly, I realize in retrospect, a migraine related phenomenon from all the smoking that was allowed in those days.

Did we take advantage of the unlimited flying specials Eastern offered? Did we ever! My husband and I, fresh out of residency training and with a 4 month old, took full advantage of the 3 week special as we traveled to every major city in the U.S. with at least one medical school (connecting in Atlanta on almost every flight, even West Coast destinations!) in order to sell our board game, INTERN, based on our experiences at Duke and Johns Hopkins, to the medical bookstores. I just recently came across my diary of that amazing odyssey. Remarkably, only had one misconnect in about 30 flights, and got several rounds of free drinks from the captain when there were significant delays (those were the days!). Trip was a success, too, when a major national game company bought the game from us.

So I had very fond memories of EA.

Not so its successor USAir. I took my last flight on USAir about 5 years ago. The gate agent at SEA forced me (upgraded as a Gold DM member) to repack my bags on the ramp while everyone watched, so as to smash a purse into a carryon for the "2 piece" rule. Having had my doubts about him from a previous flight experience I announced that he was the direct cause of my disaffiliation from that ghastly airline after 40 years of loyal flying with them.

Never again.

My memories go back quite far on EA. My grandparents would fly JFK to MIA on EAL and they took...Super Connies. I loved to watch those things start up since the piston engines spewed smoke and fire each time they turned over. After the pilot got all four pistons going, he ran them up and they off they went. I could watch all of this from the excellent viewing area on top of the terminal wing from where they left. I was a regular when it came to dropping off or picking up my parents/grandparents at the airport.

Can anyone remember when EAL sold student IDs for $1 which got you 50% off any fare (standby)? I remember buying one. They expanded the program later to include confirmed reservations for 66% of the standard fare.

I flew EAL twice in my life. The first time was in the late 60's, when I took an EAL Lockheed Electra from RDU to JFK. My father's TA had booked it as an economy fare but since it was a "prop" plane, the ticket was booked in first class (at that time, prop and jet were two different fare classes). So, I puddle jumped up to JFK in the back of an Electra.

The second time I flew EAL was on a DC-8 charter which took a me and the rest of my team down to IAH for a college varsity game. I got to sit in the jump seat on that flight as it was landing at IAH, and it was very very cool.
The only other thing I remember about that flight was that we had a near miss with another jetliner just after take-off. We didn't realize what had happened until 5 minutes after the event.

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Going places on Eastern Airlines!

This was an Eastern advertising jingle from my childhood circa 1968-69. Anyone remember THAT ONE? :D As my family flew primarily transcontinental / international, we never flew Eastern. We flew its competitor, National Airlines, when we visited an aunt & uncle in Palm Beach biannually. Otherwise, we were United / Pan Am / TWA people.

Onepass
 

I believe was formed when the holding company of CO bought EA. The reason it was called onepass is because you could get flights on either CO or EA with it . I used to have a onepass card with both the CO and EA logo's on it . (I still have a luggage claim check from EA) .

IIRC it was related to Eastern's assimilation by CO being the last of those airlines listed as other choices, or maybe it was "which airline was not assimilated by CO in the 1980s?" or some such thing.