'It was a risk I should have taken': Girl falls in love with her flight attendant and seeks the help of folks online to find him

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 21, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

If your life were a romcom, how would you meet your leading man? For working women, your leading guy might be an upscale client that you accidentally fall for. Or if you're an athlete, your romcom hottie might be a hunky cycling class instructor. If you're a solo traveling chick, your love-at-first-sight swooner would probably be the saucy flight attendant you flirted with on the way to your next romantic destination. Well, for one woman, this romcom fantasy was more than just a dream, it was reality. 

It may seem farfetched to fall in love on a flight, but for anyone that's ever crossed an ocean on a plane, you know that those flights can be long and arduous, with lots of downtime in between. As a steward or a flight attendant, you're likely to fill your time with menial work tasks, but as a passenger, you're stuck in your seat watching old action movies and eating bad food. The best way to spice up a 10 hour flight would be to find the cutest guy on the plane and see if you hit it off. That's what a romcom starlet would do! 

Scroll for the full story of love and love-lost when a woman actually falls head over heels for the steward in her section, willing to go to desperate lengths online to find her transpacific prince. 

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    Font - r/tifu Posted by u/FrontAssistant6631 2 days ago M TIFU when I didn't give my number to a flight attendant. 4 Earlier this week I (19f) started my 3 month traveling journey through Australia. While on my
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    Font - first flight over to Australia with Korean Air I fell in love with the flight attendant. Our first interaction was when I was lifting my backpack up to put in the overhead bins when someone grabbed it from me
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    Organism - and put it in. When I looked there was this beautiful Korean guy (the flight attendant in question). I thanked him. Later I asked him if he or one of his colleagues could come check on
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    Organism - me after take off since I was afraid I was going to have a panic attack. He insured me that he would be there for me if needed and that he would keep an eye on me. Everything went
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    Font - fine and after the meal was served we started chatting a bit. I had the three seats to myself which was nice cause we could have a good normal talk. At one point he came with a hand full of snacks and a drink and all gave
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    Font - them to me, after that we started talking about my home county where we flew from and Korea. Both saying that we wanted to actually visit each others home country some day. At one point it was 3 am and
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    Font - almost everyone was asleep except me, which at that point he come up to me again and we started chatting again. He asked me about my age and when I told him I was 19 I could tell that he was a few years older by his
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    Font - reaction. Non the less we still continued talking. When we landed i was one of the last ones to get of the plane cause I don't like to rush and I had a 4 hour overlay anyway. At that point I was thinking about giving him my number but I didn't have any
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    Font - paper. When I was grabbing my stuff we talked a little more and he asked me about my name. I told him my name and he told me his. At that moment I should have given my number. I deeply regret not giving him my number. I told him that if he is
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    Font - ever in my home country he should come and find me, and that I wouldn't know how but that he needed to. That's when I walked off the plan and already knew that I made a big mistake. It was a risk that I should have taken.
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    Font - So dear readers if you every meet a guy with the same story. Let me know. And I will own my life to you. TL;DR I fell in love with my flight attendant and didn't give him my number. And now I have been regretting it every single day.
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    Font - thewildbeej 2 days ago Sounds like you aren't a good enough facebook stalker.
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    Gesture - FrontAssistant6631 OP. 2 days ago He gave me an English version of his Korean name.
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    Font - dickbutt_md 1 day ago Uh, you know what flight you were on. Call the airline and ask what crew was working that flight and could they please forward your contact info to the guy who called himself whatever his name is.
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    Font - You might need to make up a reason why you want to contact a flight attendant that would be acceptable... tell them that you are anxious about flying and he kept you calm and you want to personally thank him.
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    Font - A_Few_Kind Words. 1 day ago Why is it always the ones with the best/most inappropriate names that give the best advice? This one tickled me.
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    Font - whynotlookatreddit. 1 day ago Usually airlines won't pass along messages for security and privacy reasons. Also some crew change their names every flight for safety reasons. Unfortunately too many misinterpreted interactions on flights.
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    Font - coralsmoke 1 day ago I'm a flight attendant and yes some of us purposefully get our name tags with the wrong name and take our badges off so passengers can't see the real name.
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    Font - I had a passenger misunderstand my niceness and he found me on fb during a flight and messaged to ask me out. I felt so uncomfortable I've never flown with my real name on my name tag since. I put my badge ID in my pocket in flights.
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    Smile - TURBOJUGGED . 1 day ago I doubt they would give out employees information. She could ask them to pass on her information and if he wants to reach out he can.
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    Rectangle - azurillpuff 1 day ago Oh my god don't do this! I used to be a flight attendant and there is NO WAY this would get back to you, also it's weird and creepy.
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    Font - feeltheowl 1 day ago Or at least some way to get a piece of writing to him with your contact info. I've sent cards to stores specifically addressed to people with amazing customer service before
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    Rectangle - mindtoxicity27. 1 day ago I suspect if she is really interested in pursuing this further, looking through LinkedIn at employees of Korean Air could prove fruitful.
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    Facial expression - _salty_seadog_ - 1 day ago "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky" - Michael Scott
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    Organism - Omisco420 1 day ago Honestly flight attendants are meant to be very friendly and accommodating. Not saying he wasn't flirting but very well could have just been doing his job.
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    Font - vocccc 13 hr. ago I met a guy who met and later married his flight attendant during a long flight (I met his wife too). The things that happens in first class..!
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    Font - KasukeSadiki - 1 day ago I generally agree, but her giving him her number is a pretty low stakes move. He could have reached out if he wanted to, and if not, no big. Plus the chances of them randomly seeing each other again are small so no need to worry about any future awkwardness. It's not the same as a barista or waiter situation
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    Rectangle - JoeyJoe JoeSenior - 23 hr. ago A piece of paper with a name and number as you are leaving is OK. No pressure, they can throw it away if they are not interested.
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    Tie - "I fell in love with my flight attendant"
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