When was your first flight on UA (or predecessor)
 

On the DL forum, people are discussing their first flights on DL (and their predessors):

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...or-flight.html

When was your first flight on UA (or one of its predessors)?

Although not exactly a predessor airline, I've included Pan Am in the list of predessors below. But, if the flight wasn't on that part of Pan Am taken over by UA, I'd suggest not including it here, but rather doing so on the Delta thread.

Air Micronesia
Atlantic, Gulf, and Caribbean Airways
Aviation Corporation of the Americas
Arizona Airways
Bar Harbor Airlines
Boeing Air Transport
Britt Airlines
Capital Airlines
Central Airlines
Challenger Airlines
Continental Airlines
Continental Micronesia, Inc
Eastern Airlines (see post 58 for discussion on inclusion of EA)
ExpressJet (only up until spun off from Continental in 2002)
Frontier Airlines (formed in 1950, not the current one)
Monarch Airlines (the US one, not the European one)
National Air Transport
National American Aviation (note, not North American Airlines)
New York Air
Pacific Air Transport
Pan American Airways, Inc.
Pan American World Airways
Pennsylvania Air Lines
Pennsylvania Airlines
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
People Express Airlines
Pioneer Airlines
Pittsburg Aviation Industries Corp
Provincetown-Boston Airlines
Rocky Mountain Airways
Texas International Airlines
Trans-Texas Airways
United Air Lines dba United Airlines
Varney Airlines
Varney Speed lines

I think the first time had to have been in 2008 - flew NW exclusively growing up

1965 on UA metal JFK-SFO when the family relocated from NY to CA. I wrote UA after the flight and they sent me a nice packet of black and white aircraft photos. That was my first commercial flight.

I'm pretty sure my first was SFO-LAX-FRA in 1985 on Pan Am. (the only other possibility would be a flight JFK-SFO in 1974, when I was 2, but I don't know the airline for that).

I distinctly remember the seemingly impossibly steep angle at which the 747 took off. Also, the plane had piped-in music via in-seat headsets, so, being a 13 year old, I listened to crappy pop music until my ears were sore from the pressure of the plastic headset jabbing into my head.

My first flight on UA was in October of 1954 on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago on a DC7...I was 2 years old! My first flight ever was in 1952 on a TWA Super Constellation from Los Angeles to Kansas City with 1KPathDad at the controls as captain and 1KPathUncle acting as copilot (he was a check captain)...I was three weeks old:)

3/9/00 DSM-ORD connecting to LHR for a senior trip, been hooked since and never flown anyone else :)

Co ewr-lgw ~1999

I hope that counted towards your lifetime miles!

First UA was ORD-RNO on a DC-8-61 in 1978. Plane continued on to PDX. I Remember being fascinated by all the doors. Got a tour of the cockpit after we landed. Still have the wings. Probably nostalgia, but UA DC-8s where my favorite especially in the 1980s with the leather F seats...sort of an brownish-orange if I remember correctly.

First flight as a business traveller - 1993, LAX-HKG in F on the 744 w 36 F seats

First flight ever w UA - 1982, CLE-LGA (UA not CO) in Y on a 732. Flight was cancelled due to heavy snow in the North East (same day the Air Florida flight crashed taking off from WAS

First flight w CO - 1974 w my parents from LAX-HNL on a 747-100. They had TWO lounges, one upstairs from first & another behind F for both F & Y passengers (there was no C in those days

I'm trying to remember which parts of PA went to which airline. If memory serves, UA inherited mostly the Pacific routes, didn't it, with DL getting most of the transatlantic routes (with the possible exception of London)?

Anyhow, my first PA flight was in July 1970, LHR-BOS-IAD, aboard the 747 "Clipper Red Jacket." The 747s had only been in service for about six months at the time, and I flew on the day designated by Boeing as carrying the 747s' one millionth passenger. But rather than pick one person as # 1,000,000, they gave everybody flying that day a goody bag of trinkets.

Terminal E at Logan was under reconstruction, so passengers continuing on to Dulles were not cleared through immigration at BOS. To encourage them to stay on the plane during the stop, the flight crew invited visitors to the cockpit, where they showed off their new technologies. The particular pride was the then innovative inertial navigation system. The captain impressed us by remarking that on the 3,250 mile flight from Heathrow, the two independent units of the system differed only by about half the length of the Logan runway.

The other memorable aspect of that flight was that individual interior lights in the cabin would flash on and off intermittently throughout the whole flight. If I'm remembering correctly, it took Boeing somewhere between one and two years of 747 service before that problem was fully diagnosed and rectified. It didn't affect all airlines' 747-100 configurations, I believe, but it was a well-recognized issue for PA. Electrical problems in subsequent years (IFE unit electrics, Dreamliner batteries, etc.) always remind me of the early 747 incidents.

By contrast, my first UA flight was much less memorable: a 737-200 ("Mainliner Kansas City") hop from CLE to BWI in March 1971.

I want to say LAX-HNL in 1992. Not sure the aircraft type but I definitely remember sitting in the terminal waiting for the flight.

If that happened to be on someone other than United, then my first flight in the friendly skies would have been LAX-PHL in May 2001. I'm pretty sure it was on an A320, but could have been a 757. My first CO flight was May 2011 DCA-IAH on a 738, though the merger had already started by then so I don't know if that counts.

August 1960 LAX-HNL. 4 years old. United Air Lines

1969 (or possibly 1970) SYD - NAN on PA 841. It was a 741.

If only it did;)...I will have to settle for the nearly 4MM BIS since 1981!

Was it on the Boeing Stratocruiser or the "new" DC-8? I remember flying both to HNL during that time.