--- title: #findkatie: Man Launches Twitter Campaign to Find Love at First Sight description: An Irish man used a hashtag to find a woman he met on a plane canonical: https://time.com/3082641/findkatie-loveatfirstflight-jamie-kelly/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-05T17:12:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:46.810Z og:title: #findkatie: Man Launches Twitter Campaign to Find Love at First Sight og:description: An Irish man used a hashtag to find a woman he met on a plane og:url: https://time.com/3082641/findkatie-loveatfirstflight-jamie-kelly/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3750d8820a01c1c/69869e7236176069cd90d578/lost-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5121 og:image:height: 2881 og:image:alt: Lost Airport og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: #findkatie: Man Launches Twitter Campaign to Find Love at First Sight twitter:description: An Irish man used a hashtag to find a woman he met on a plane twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3750d8820a01c1c/69869e7236176069cd90d578/lost-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Guy Launches Twitter Campaign to Find His Love-at-First-Sight Woman > Sponsored content. 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Peter Cade—Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 5, 2014 5:12 PM UTC Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy convinces all his friends to tweet about said girl until he tracks her down. Depending on your perspective its one of the most romantic or the creepiest stories of the year. A 24-year-old Irishman named Jamie Kelly met 27-year-old Canadian Katie Moreau on a plane from Dublin to Barcelona. The two hit it off but were separated at customs. After failing to track her down on Facebook—Kelly did not know Katie’s last name or phone number—he asked his friends to help him launch a #findkatie Twitter campaign to track her down. > [](https://twitter.com/Donalf89/status/495142921554124800) The hashtags #findkatie and #loveatfirstsight quickly spread, and eventually Kelly found Moreau. “I never thought I would ever see him again so what a surprise after a couple of pints to log onto Facebook and see all these messages,” Moreau [told CBC News](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/love-at-first-flight-irish-romeo-s-mysterious-katie-found-1.2726162). “I find it very humorous because all my friends back home are losing their heads about it.” She went on to say that she too had searched for Kelly at the airport but gave up because she didn’t want to seem too desperate. “I suppose, in hindsight, looking a bit longer wouldn’t seem as desperate in comparison.” The pair said they are chatting online and even though there is a 10-hour flight between them, they will see each other soon. \[[_CBC News_\]](I%20suppose, in hindsight, looking a bit longer wouldn't seem as desperate in comparison.) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3082641/findkatie-loveatfirstflight-jamie-kelly/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3082641/findkatie-loveatfirstflight-jamie-kelly/"},"headline":"Guy Launches Twitter Campaign to Find His Love-at-First-Sight Woman","datePublished":"2014-08-05T17:12:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:46.810Z","description":"An Irish man used a hashtag to find a woman he met on a plane","url":"https://time.com/3082641/findkatie-loveatfirstflight-jamie-kelly/","keywords":["Living","relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3750d8820a01c1c/69869e7236176069cd90d578/lost-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3750d8820a01c1c/69869e7236176069cd90d578/lost-airport.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lost Airport","caption":"Lost Airport","creditText":"Peter Cade—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3082641/findkatie-loveatfirstflight-jamie-kelly/","name":"Guy Launches Twitter Campaign to Find His Love-at-First-Sight Woman"}}]}] ```