My mom and I are pilots who fly together — a dream come true

A mother and daughter duo have taken their dreams to the skies.

Captain Holly Petitt and First Officer Keely Petitt are Southwest Airlines’ first pair of mother-daughter pilots.

They’ve already flown together once on Flight 3658 from Denver to St. Louis. The moment Holly introduced Keely to passengers was caught on camera and aired on “Good Morning America” on Tuesday.

“Today is a special day for me. I would like to introduce to you your first officer, a brand new member of the Southwest team of pilots, and my daughter, Keely,” she said to the plane’s applause.

“I just keep using the word ‘surreal’,” Holly told the morning show about their first route together. “You have this little baby you’re holding in your arms and then in a blink of an eye there she is sitting on the flight deck next to you.”

“It’s just it’s been surreal and a dream come true,” Holly added.

Starting out as a flight attendant after college, Holly said she had an “aha” moment when she got the chance to sit in the jumpseat.

“This is what I want to do with the rest of my life,’” she recalled of her epiphany to the Denver Channel. “So I went home, told my husband Todd, and he laughed because we had three kids, the youngest was one, Keely was just over two, and Zoey was three-and-a-half. That’s when I took my first flight lesson. He said, ‘Okay, let’s do this.’ And we just took it one step at a time.”

Years later, growing up around Southwest airplanes, Keely knew she also wanted to be a pilot by age 14. She started at Southwest as an intern in 2017. Two years later, she got her personal pilot license.

Keely worked for the regional airline Horizon Air for nearly three years before joining her mother’s company this year, according to One Mile At A Time.

“Southwest was always the end goal for me,” Keely said. “There was really never any other option.”

The duo does not know when they will fly together again, but both ladies are looking forward to that day.

“I’m looking just at my schedule like how can I swap this around to fly with mom,” Keely told “GMA.”

“I don’t care where we go or when we do it but anytime we would get to fly together again would just be spectacular,” she smiled.