Depending on your point of view, this incident can be viewed as sweet, generous, surprising, ill advised, foolish, opening the door to inane passenger expectations – and that’s just looking at a few possibilities. What happened? A Taylor Swift fan asked a Southwest pilot to fly over the pop star’s concert in Los Angeles — and guess what – he obliged.
Samantha Meany, who goes by the username @idkitssammy on TikTok, posted a video sharing a conversation between her and a Southwest pilot.
In the video, Meany can be heard asking a flight attendant if she could enter the cockpit and ask the pilot a question.
“So, I was looking at the flight path of where we’re going to go from here to LA, are we going to fly over Inglewood?” she said in the video. The pilot responded that the plane would indeed fly over Inglewood.
“Because the Taylor Swift concert is happening right there right now, and I’d think that would be super cool if we fly over it,” she said, adding that she “couldn’t go to the concert” so she hoped to fly over the concert venue. She also says the next day is her birthday.
The pilot then asks if she’d ever been inside a cockpit before and when she responds that she has not he invited her to in and even took a picture of her in his seat.
In another video posted on Friday, Meany shared that the pilot’s name is Max. She clarified in the video that she didn’t approach him mid-flight but during a layover.
“I did not know that the stadium was covered. So yes, we did fly directly over it, and I was like, oh shoot, there’s a roof,” she said in the video, referring to SoFi Stadium, where Swift has been performing.
“All we really got to see of the concert was all of the traffic that was waiting to pick up the people, I guess, that was about to end,” she continued, adding that she was “sorry” that the “view was a disappointment.”
Meany said she’s been a fan of Taylor Swift “pretty much her whole music career.”
“I wanted to go to her concert in LA for my 29th birthday, but the tickets were so expensive. A trip to Hawaii for my friend and I was less expensive than ONE ticket for her concert!” she added.
Several users on TikTok shared how the pilot was “so sweet” for accommodating Meany’s request.
Southwest did not immediately respond to media requests for comment.
@idkitssammy Not the pilot insulting me 😂 Did you guys know you can just walk up here???? #southwestairlines #taylorswift #flying #pilot