Passenger flirts with pilot on Frontier flight— and was stunned by his reaction: ‘People think I'm making it up'

New York Post

20-05-2025

Love was in the air.
An Ohio woman revealed how a chance encounter prompted a handsome pilot to drop her an epic gesture in the sky — and the two have been inseparable ever since. She detailed this romance in a series of viral videos on TikTok.
'Every time I tell the story people think I'm making it up,' Tanya Pidgorodetskiy, 25, captioned one of the clips detailing the meet-cute moment, which occurred while she was flying home with her family to Cleveland.
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The traveler had reportedly caught her future beau looking at her at the Charlotte, North Carolina airport, noting that he had a pilot uniform and was a head taller than everyone else, People reported.
3 Tanya Pidgorodetskiy. 'Hi, I'm sure you get notes like this all the time, but I would love to take you out to dinner and get to know you,' the note read.
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3 Tanya and Wesley have been inseparable since their first date.
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Pidgorodetskiy didn't think anything of it until she boarded her Frontier flight and saw that the mystery man, named Wesley, was on the same plane. As he was in uniform, the gal initially thought he was her pilot, but later realized he was actually off-duty and was en route to the Buckeye State to pilot a different flight.
The off-duty captain reportedly gave her nephew a wave as she carried the tyke down the aisle to her seat toward the back of the jet.
She then didn't interact with Wesley for the rest of the flight until right before touchdown, when the pilot approached her with a note.
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'I was sitting in a row towards the back, and 20 minutes before landing, I got a tap on my shoulder, and it's that guy, and he handed me a napkin, and I was just so confused,' Pidgorodetskiy said. 'I made my mom and my sister read it first. I was freaking out.'
The message read: 'Hi, I'm sure you get notes like this all the time, but I would love to take you out to dinner and get to know you.'
'If that's something you'd be up for, let me know,' added the captain, who left his number at the end of the note.
Pidgorodetskiy learned later that the pilot had never asked out a flyer before, and had to be 'hyped' up by one of the flight attendants, who also helped him draft the letter.
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Nonetheless, she said she texted her sky suitor 'the following day, and then we went and got dinner the day after that.' They reportedly met on Halloween — with her noting that their connection was instantaneous — and then strolled the city for hours.
'We've been inseparable ever since,' gushed the lovestruck woman. In a video from April, Wesley can be seen playing Top Golf with her niece and nephew.
'The fact that I almost didn't take the flight and now the pilot who handed me the note is teaching golf to my niece and nephew,' she gushed in the caption. 'The butterfly effect is too real.'
Viewers were equally awestruck by their relationship with one comment section romantic writing, 'Everything happens for a reason.'
Another shared a similar story of a serendipitous romance sparked in the sky, writing: 'Called my wedding off and sat next to my future husband on the flight I took to celebrate calling my wedding off.'
However, some cynics thought that Mr. Right may have been too good to be true. 'Crew will tell you he hands notes out often and will have a lady in every city around the globe,' scoffed one skeptic.
But according to Pidgorodetskiy, it was love at first flight.
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3 Viewers were equally awestruck by their relationship with one comment section romantic writing, 'Everything happens for a reason.'
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The couple recently returned to their first date spot, whereupon they noticed a mural that read, 'The only lie I ever told you is that I liked you when I already knew I loved you.'
'It shook the both of us when we saw it because he always says he knew within five minutes of our first date that I was the one,' she said.