Nothing seems to warm our hearts quite like the angels we meet in flight.
There’s just something about soaring thousands of feet above the rest of the world in one little plane that gives people who were once strangers a unique sense of kinship. Boarding a commercial flight is kind of like being suspended on your own island six miles high, along with a couple hundred souls who are all keenly aware that “we’re in this thing together, because for the next couple hours, we’re all we’ve got.”
And perhaps no airline knows how to breed that sense of humanity better than Southwest.
There must be something about those wing pins that make these fine folks angels in the flesh.
For one mom, Peggy Uhle, a Southwest pilot actually turned around on the runway and went back to the gate to get her quickly to her ailing son.
And when Rex Ridenoure boarded his L.A.-bound flight to visit his dying sister last year, the Southwest crew coordinated a beautiful sendoff to the woman who just so happened to be a SW flight attendant herself.
The 121 passengers on board joined in penning heart-warming napkin messages to a woman they never even knew.
