Originally Posted by Bloodhound

I had it once. I grew up in a small town, 3000-ish people, and flew a flight from South Bend to Cleveland, and there was a girl I grew up with on it. I'd love for a statistics geek to figure out the chances of that. The variables get crazy. Excluding the chances of me getting the job with the particular company and the chances of her selecting Notre Dame for law school, you have the number of pilots in base/position/aircraft, the numbers of lines for that month, my bid choices, the number of flights in/out of SBN, the number of airlines in/out of SBN, and the date/time selected to fly out SBN.