A woman who spent a TUI flight back from Lanzarote chatting to the man she sat next to now wants to track him down, as she thinks they have a connection. Jane Annakin, 53, was flying from Lanzarote to Manchester at 12.30pm on Sunday, October 9 and now regrets not asking if the man she spoke to for the whole flight wanted to stay in touch.
Jane told the ECHO : "We were on a row of four seats and I was sitting on the end and he, his mum and I think his stepdad came. I just said to him 'look if you don't want to talk during the flight, that is fine', because I can literally talk the hind leg of a donkey.
"I said 'I will read my book' and he said 'no, no, I like talking'. We literally spoke for the duration of the flight which was like four hours or so.
"He just opened up and told me so many things that you wouldn't tell a stranger. We just got on so well and it was so refreshing to have a conversation like that and click with someone like that."
Jane said when they got off the plane the man offered to help with her suitcase, however Jane said she "dashed off" without asking if they wanted to exchange numbers. She added: "It was one of those moments where he said 'it was lovely to talk to you, I have really enjoyed talking to you' and then I kind of dashed off. It was one of those moments where I thought why did I dash off?
"Why did I not just say 'do you want to exchange numbers'? He might not want to. I am sure he is single but he might not be, I am nearly 100% certain he is. He might not want to meet up or anything and that is fine.
"I just thought, I can't lose anything by doing it. I can only gain from this."
Jane said she was sat in seat 17F and the man was in 17E on flight number TOM2755. She believes the man's name was Paul, however she is not certain on this as she said she is "hopeless with names", is from Wigan and in his 40s The 53-year-old said she knows the man might not want to get in contact - which she understands - but wanted to try as she is a "hopeless romantic."
