JetBlue Flies Two Men to the Wedding Chapel

While flight attendants are usually asking passengers to keep the aisle clear, one JetBlue employee is getting some love for helping a gay couple walk down the aisle. To get married, that is. After she learned that two men on a flight she was working from Burbank to New York were planning to get married in Manhattan, JetBlue flight attendant Virginia offered to be a legal witness to the men’s wedding.

In a letter published this week on the JetBlue blog BlueTales, new husbands Rick and Liam explain that when the crew on a Dec. 10, 2012 JetBlue flight learned that were about to get married, the flight attendants prepared a basket of congratulatory goodies and then the pilot announced the good news to the whole plane. “Love was in the air—literally and figuratively,” the men wrote.

The love didn’t stop there. When the men realized they needed—-but didn’t have--a witness to get married, flight attendant Virginia offered to fill the bill. So on December 12, Virginia’s day off, she got on her bike, picked up a wedding cake, and then pedaled down to City Hall to witness Rick and Liam’s wedding. “We were simply overjoyed,” the men wrote to JetBlue. “No words could ever express our gratitude for the love we received from her. Virginia was not only our flight attendant and the witness of our marriage, she has become our friend for life.”

Talk about the gay-friendly skies!

See the men’s full letter and pictures from their trip to New York City here.