ARCHIVE: Celebrity sightings on US Airways Flights
Oct 14, 2008, 3:24 pm
#271
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Rapper/actor Alpa Chino on a LAX-PHL flight last week. He and his entourage took up half of F. Surprisingly little attitude for a star of his stature. He was actually very gracious when the FA informed him that there were no Bust-A-Nut bars in the snack basket.
Oct 14, 2008, 3:37 pm
#272
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: RSW
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RSW-CLT
Tom Lehman - Pro golfer on 1433 from Ft. Myers to Charlotte. Couldn't fit his garment bag in 1st so they gate checked it. 3 more people boarded after him with bags in coach and none of those were gate checked.
Good to see that US doesn't play favorites! Although, I think only one other passenger knew who he was and the crew didn't know or care.
Good to see that US doesn't play favorites! Although, I think only one other passenger knew who he was and the crew didn't know or care.
Oct 17, 2008, 9:37 pm
#273
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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Katie Couric in seat 3C, US 1624, CLT-LGA, on October 17, 2008. She had water and dozed/relaxed with her Bose headphones. (I was in 2C.)
Oct 18, 2008, 9:35 am
#274
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: CLT
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Tom Lehman - Pro golfer on 1433 from Ft. Myers to Charlotte. Couldn't fit his garment bag in 1st so they gate checked it. 3 more people boarded after him with bags in coach and none of those were gate checked.
Good to see that US doesn't play favorites! Although, I think only one other passenger knew who he was and the crew didn't know or care.
Good to see that US doesn't play favorites! Although, I think only one other passenger knew who he was and the crew didn't know or care.
Heck I never heard of him
Oct 18, 2008, 8:34 pm
#275
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: ORF
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Joe Liberman on a trip from Hartford to DCA last fall. Sat across from him in first. Quite a thrill since we are both Jewish. Had a nice chat about recent trips to Israel.
Oct 19, 2008, 8:12 pm
#276
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 805
Jim Lampley checking in at first class counter from PHL to LAX this morning. He was a real jerk to another passenger waiting to check in. Berated the guy for at least 2 full minutes for not putting his luggage on the scale. He created quite a scene. I asked the agent if they got a lot of these "celebrities" with attitudes. "Yup" was the response I got.
Miserable trip, by the way. Mechanical delays on Saturday left hundreds missing their connections from Europe. All I can say is that US admitted it was their mistake and put us up for the night (or 6 hours of it).
Miserable trip, by the way. Mechanical delays on Saturday left hundreds missing their connections from Europe. All I can say is that US admitted it was their mistake and put us up for the night (or 6 hours of it).
Oct 20, 2008, 7:02 pm
#278
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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From Wikipedia:
Jim Lampley (born April 8, 1949) is an American sports broadcaster, news anchor, movie producer, and restaurant owner. He has been in several television shows, but is better known for his participation in the HBO Boxing series (officially HBO World Championship Boxing). Olympic Games Reporter and Anchor (1984-present)
Oct 20, 2008, 8:39 pm
#280
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
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She was quiet and kept to herself!
Oct 21, 2008, 12:06 pm
#281
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: PHL
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Bob Dole in Y on US 771 DCA-FLL this morning (10/21).
Oct 25, 2008, 2:26 pm
#282
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 758
Kate Walsh (Dr. Addison Montgomery Shepard) in 2D on US 1446 LAX-PHL on 10/24-10/25
Oct 25, 2008, 2:34 pm
#283
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Athens, WV, USA; a US cockroach long before it was in FFOCUS; now a lowly US5 for only the 2nd time in 20 years.
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Oct 29, 2008, 12:31 pm
#284
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: SAN
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Believe it. His flight is BOS - DCA Shuttle so the flight isn't nearly as miserable as the rest of US. Also, one of his aides picks him up at Logan in a minivan (Chrysler Town & Country). Or at least when my office was in the same building as his years ago that was the car. Boston Brahmins don't wear their money on the outside. That would be too tacky.
Oct 29, 2008, 12:34 pm
#285
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 656
Tom Arnold was on a PHX to LAX flight a few weeks ago, seems like a real regular guy, how he was every married to RB is awonder.