Pilot Asks Out Woman on His Flight with Sweet Note (Exclusive)

Tanya Pidgorodetskiy was enjoying her flight when a pilot approached her.

Pidgorodetskiy, 25, had spotted the man looking at her in the Charlotte Airport, but didn’t think anything of it. The young man stood out because not only was he wearing a pilot uniform, but he was also a head taller than the rest of the crowd.

When Pidgorodetskiy boarded her plane home to Cleveland, she noticed the pilot was on the same flight. As she carried her nephew through the aisle, he gave the little one a wave.

Pidgorodetskiy tells PEOPLE that the pilot, Wesley, wasn’t working her flight, but rather on his way to Ohio to start his route there. 

“He was in his uniform, so I thought he was the pilot on our flight, and I was so confused,” she admits.

Although the two weren’t seated next to each other, Wesley found her in the back of the plane right before they touched down.

“It was a shorter flight, but 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,” she shares. “I made my mom and my sister read it first. I was freaking out.” 

Scribbled on a Frontier napkin, was a sweet — and totally unexpected — message from Wesley.

“It said that, ‘I’d love to get to know you and grab dinner sometime,'” she recalls. “He left his phone number, so I texted him the following day, and then we went and got dinner the day after that. We’ve been inseparable ever since.”

Prior to meeting Pidgorodetskiy, Wesley had never asked out a passenger before, and needed a bit of encouragement from the flight attendants before working up the courage to make a move.

“The flight attendant on that plane had to hype him up to do it, and she helped him write the note,” Pidgorodetskiy shares.

The two had their first date on Halloween and Pidgorodetskiy says there were instant sparks. After grabbing a bite to eat, they ended up walking around the city for hours as they didn’t want the night to end.

They recently went back to their first date spot and noticed a new 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 shares.

While Pidgorodetskiy hasn’t been on one of Wesley’s flights since, there are plans in motion for that to happen.

“Honestly, I think he’s more scared than I am. He tells me that it makes him nervous, but no, we haven’t,” she says. “It is on the list. We’re planning on doing just a smaller airplane for him to fly, so it’s just like me and him, but also a commercial one too, where he’s the pilot and I’m just traveling.”