LOVE was certainly in the air for one couple, after a seating mix-up on board an easyJet flight brought them together.
Adaya Cohen, 24, thought Michael Hoffman, 27, had taken her window seat on a flight from London to Tel Aviv, Israel.
When she asked him to move they got talking – and sparks flew.
After saying goodbye five hours later, Michael couldn’t get Adaya out of his mind – and tracked her down on Facebook and invited her out for sushi a few days later.
Now living together in London, three years after falling in love at first flight back in September 2015, Adaya confessed: “I felt like we really hit it off and was a bit disappointed when he didn’t ask for my number before we landed.
“I thought he just wasn’t interested, or maybe he had a girlfriend. When I got the message a few days later, I said yes straight away.
“It’s so strange to have such a connection with someone you’ve known for just a few hours.”
When they met, Adaya and Michael were both studying in Israel – her in Tel Aviv, where they were flying back to ahead of the new term, and him about an hour away at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Adaya – who was flying with her brother but sitting separately – grew up in Israel but has family in the UK.
Michael, on the other hand – who was travelling alone – had grown up in the UK but moved to Israel in 2010.
Adaya explained: “My brother was in the same row on the plane, but on the opposite side. He was sat by the window and I thought I had a window seat, too, but there was a guy already sat there.
“I said, ‘Excuse me, that’s my seat,’ but he explained that I’d got a bit confused. There was a girl in between us and when I sat down, we all continued the conversation.”
They hit it off so well that the girl in the middle assumed Adaya and Michael knew each other and offered to swap seats so they could be together.
Michael recalled: “She asked Adaya if she wanted to swap seats, but she said no. The conversation kept going as the flight was a bit delayed, but when we started to get ready to move, the girl in the middle was drifting off, so she offered again to swap.”
After that, they chatted non-stop for the entire five-hour flight – even discovering they had some mutual friends.
“It felt like we had a lot in common,” Adaya said.
“It was like I’d known him for a lot longer than five hours. The conversation just flowed. We talked about our friends, family and our studies.”
Hoping as they came in to land that Michael would ask for her number, Adaya assumed she would never see him again when he didn’t.
Michael explained: “I really wanted to ask her, but I was worried she would feel a bit trapped.
“When you’re on a plane there’s nowhere you can really go if you feel uncomfortable. I didn’t want to put her in that awkward position.
“As soon as I got off, I regretted it. I looked on Facebook, as she has an unusual name and I knew we had some mutual friends. I thought I might as well send her a message and just explain why I hadn’t asked on the plane.”
Adaya was worried that once the new term began, the hour-long train journey between their universities would put him off.
“I thought when I said goodbye at the train station, I might not see him again,” she confessed.
“But he was back that weekend and, after that, we made the trip back and forth each weekend to see each other.”
After two years of living in separate cities, Adaya and Michael decided to take the leap and move to London together to study for their respective masters degrees.
“It’s funny because before I met Michael, I knew I wanted to study in either the UK or the US,” said Adaya.
“I had thought about it for my BA degree, but that hadn’t worked out and, at the time, I said I would do it for my postgraduate studies.
“When we met, that plan worked for Michael, as his family are back in the UK and it meant he could spend more time with them.”
In September 2017, Adaya started her masters in post-production at the Met Film School, while Michael started his studies in genetics of human disease at University College London.
Initially Adaya moved into shared accommodation, while Michael lived with his family, but six months ago they finally started living together in West Hampstead, north west London.
“It’s fantastic living together,” Michael said.
“To go from seeing each other at weekends to spending so much time together is great. It’s just the little things like cooking together and even cleaning together.”
And the couple – an example of the two in every 100 people flying every day who meet and fall in love in the air, according to new research from HSBC – have enjoyed many trips back and forward to the UK since they met.
Now having finished their studies, Adaya is working as a junior video editor and Michael is applying for jobs in London.
Adaya said: “We love living in London and we are very happy here. We have no plans to move any time soon but we think we would eventually like to go back to Israel.”
If they do, they will be sure to book their lucky seats.
Michael laughed: “We always try to book the same seats, in row 12, that we were in when we met. It’s not always possible, but it’s a nice thing to do.”
Meanwhile, Adaya is still dining out on their love story three years later.
She added: “It’s such a nice story to tell people. When they ask where we met and I say ‘On a plane,’ the conversation never ends there.”
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HSBC’s research involved 11.9 million people around the world, who are flying on any given day, and found that two in every 100 have met someone and fallen in love on a plane.
HSBC UK Head of Personal Banking, Becky Moffat, said: “It turns out air travel brings an incredible sense of possibility and people are making life-changing connections in the sky.”
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