Plane passenger reveals pilot's shockingly bold pick up move
It sounds like the plot of a Hallmark movie - only with a real-life pilot, a handwritten napkin note, and TikTok playing the role of narrator.
An Ohio woman has gone viral for sharing the high-flying details of how she met her now-boyfriend: an airline pilot who spotted her in an airport, followed her onto a flight, and passed her a note that kickstarted their romance.
Tanya Pidgorodetskiy, 25, had no idea she was boarding a flight into her own love story when she flew home to Cleveland from Charlotte, North Carolina.
While waiting at the airport, she caught the eye of a tall man in a pilot uniform.
He caught hers too.
'He was at least a head taller than everyone else,' Tanya recounted in a now-viral TikTok series.
'But I didn't think anything of it… until I boarded the plane.'
The mystery man - later revealed to be Wesley, an off-duty captain for Frontier Airlines - happened to be heading to Ohio for his next assignment.
But his attention wasn't just on his upcoming route.
According to Tanya, he waved at her nephew while she made her way down the aisle, and though they didn't speak during the flight, she got a surprise just before landing.
'I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around,' Tanya explained.
'It was him. He handed me a napkin. I was completely confused.'
The note, charmingly scribbled on the impromptu paper, 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.'
Turns out, the pilot had never pulled a move like this before.
A flight attendant reportedly 'hyped him up' and even helped him write the message.
Tanya texted him the next day, and the pair went out for dinner shortly after.
That Halloween meet-cute turned into an hours-long date that ended with them walking around the city.
Since then, she says they've been 'inseparable.'
In a follow-up video, Wesley can be seen bonding with her niece and nephew at Top Golf.
Tanya captioned it with an emotional reflection: '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… The butterfly effect is too real.'
Their story has charmed TikTok commenters, with users swooning over the timing, the boldness, and the unfolding of their romance.
The couple recently revisited their first date spot - only to find a mural that read: 'The only lie I ever told you is that I liked you when I already knew I loved you.'
Fitting, considering Wesley told her he knew within five minutes that she was 'the one.'
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