Donna's a girl from a small town, who wishes to get out of it and see the world. She reads the book of Sally Weston, a flight attendant who was flown to practically everywhere. She then decides to become a flight attendant at a small commuter airline. After gaining a little experience she decides to apply to a major airline. She convinces her two co-workers, Sherry and Christine to join her. While she and Christine get in, Sherry doesn't. Now Donna is putting her heart and soul into it and after meeting Sally Weston, she is determined to be assigned to an international route. But when the asignments are posted, she is shocked to discover that she is been assigned to a commuter route in Cleveland. While she feels that her dreams have been dashed, she meets a great guy but when she decides that she's going to fight for what she wants, she has to chose between him and it.

Cameo: [George Kennedy] The veteran of the Airport movies (Airport (1970), etc) is man in first-class who declines Donna's offer of champagne and caviar.

John Whitney:
You put the wrong em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LA-ble.

Continuity: When Christine is changing the ID numbers on the tests, the formation of the numbers - particularly the numeral 4 - on Donna's test changes between shots.

Performed by John Koha from The Band Escape
Written by Jonathan Cain, Steve Perry (as Stephen Perry) and Neal Schon