Writer:	Larry Charles
Director:	Tom Cherones
Star:	Michael Richards (Cosmo Kramer),  Jason Alexander (George Louis Costanza),  Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine Marie Benes (not in pilot)),  Jerry Seinfeld (Himself)
Recurring Role:	Deck McKenzie (Security Guard),  Annie Korzen (Passenger #2),  Larry David (Voice of Man ordering the leftover kosher meal (uncredited))
Guest Star:	William Evan Masters (Driver),  Jack Graiman (Cop),  Mark Christopher Lawrence (Sky Cap),  Maggie Egan (Ticket Clerk),  Karen Denise Williams (Attendant #2),  Lenny Rose (Passenger #1),  Allan Wasserman (Grossbard),  JM J. Bullock (Attendant #1),  Scott Burkholder (Prisoner),  Jennifer Lynn Campbell (Tia)

This episode was nominated for the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special. (edit) As they are driving to the airport in St. Louis, Jerry mentions that Elaine got to see her sister on this trip.
This ties in with a later episode (The phone message) where Elaine mentions that she has a brother-in-law. (edit) When Larry David does his uncredited "Voice of Man ordering the leftover kosher meal" the voice he uses he will later reuse as the voice of George Steinbrenner. (edit) A St. Louis based viewer, Randy Canis notes that Jerry and Elaine are not at the real Lambert Field. I wouldn't expect them to be, that would be too expensive to film and only viewers familiar with the airport would ever notice. (edit) Viewer Paul Brackett, who must work in the airline industry, notes the following:

"They were flying from St. Louis to JFK, then to LGA. Only TWA flies these routes non-stop. They showed 2 ground shots of the aircraft, and both of the ground shots were of a Southwest airlines Boeing 737. Then they showed the plane in flight a couple of times, both shots were of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9. Then they showed the interior of the coach section, in which the colors of the seats and the configuration resembled the interior of a Delta coach plane, with 3-3 seating. Both the 737 and the DC-9 are 3-2 seating. Then they showed the interior of the first class section, which looked like the interior of a Continental DC-10 First class section, based on seating arrangements and color of the seats. Also, the plane is clearly a SWA jet on the outside, but Southwest has never had a first class section. One would think that folks in the TV industry would fly enough to notice these things!"
(edit)

Jerry: I hate rental cars. Nothing ever works: the window doesn't work, the radio doesn't work… and it smells like a cheap hooker. (edit) George: (from outside the plane, we don't hear him but he is saying…) KRAMER!!!! (edit) Jerry: I got my bags. I'm ready to go.
Elaine: Yeah, you got your bags!
(scene goes to Honolulu International Airport where we see Elaine's luggage going around the baggage terminal) (edit) (the plane lands, Jerry looks out the window and sees Kramer running)
Jerry: (to himself) Nah, couldn't be. (edit) Kramer: Listen, I didn't do anything wrong. That guy owes me 240 bucks!
Security Guard: Now, you're in big trouble.
(Kramer breaks free from his arms and runs off) (edit)

I have a problem with the timing in this one. When Jerry and Elaine are in St. Louis and the gate agent says their flight is cancellend the borad behind her says it is supposed to leave at 9:15. When George and Kramer are at the airport Kramer sees Grossbard who points to the monitor and says to the woman with him "our flight's at 8:30" (not an exact quote but he definitely says 8:30). Assuming people get to the airport 45 minutes early it is probably around 7:45 or so at this point. Why would George and Kramer be at the airport at 7:45 to meet a flight that is probably not scheduled to land until approximately 11:30. (edit) As Kramer is running outside of the plane to catch Grossbard, he's shown running next to a Southwest plane which is the plane Jerry's on. Jerry is sitting in first class but Southwest doesn't offer first class. They must have just spliced in another shot. (edit) Jerry and Elaine are told there are only two seats available on the plane. One in first class, the other in Coach. However, at one point, Elaine sneaks into the First Class section and tries to sleep in two empty seats. Obviously there were more than just two seats available.

It is possible at the time Jerry and Elaine were boarding the plane there were only TWO seats available, one in first class, one in coach. Another person in first class failed to show up. The airline would still show the seat as reserved and unavailable. (edit) While Jerry and Elaine race through the airport to get to their flight on time they run around a corner and past a sign that reads, " Gates 24-40". They run forward down a passageway until they are out of camera range, then the next scene shows them running around the opposite corner by the same sign, and then down the same passageway. Not only that, some of the same extras are walking through both passageways! (edit)

George: But you are, Blanche. You are in the shackles!

From the classic film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Blanche: You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this chair.
Jane: But cha AAH, Blanche, ya AAH in that chair. (edit)