This Day in Aviation History . . .

“It’s been a wild ride.”JetBlue FA Steve Slater, after quitting his job by grabbing 2 beers, popping the escape slide and jumping out.

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY,

AWA IDI joined a little airline called America West Airlines.

  It wasn’t the biggest, or the fanciest, or the most-respected. But it had a great spirit, and seemed to be “going places.”

  What’s more, it was based in my home town of Phoenix, Arizona. I would have the unique pleasure of living and working in the same city—a rarity in this business.

Aux Dash 8 Eve Cheryl

DASH 8 CAP’N. With Flight Attendant Eve—to this day one of my best friends—and First Officer Cheryl, who, like me, is now an A320 Captain.

I had been sending resumes to this little airline every month for five years—long before I was qualified. When I finally got interviewed, my folder was three times as thick as any other.
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I was hired.

Cap'n Babyface! My first command at AWA, the venerable DHC Dash 8

Cap’n Babyface! My first command at AWA, the venerable DHC Dash 8

Me AA tail!

  Now, the “little airline that could” has become the world’s largest, gobbling up two bigger fish and taking their names, until they all stand together as the world’s largest airline.

IMG_9660-1  I am proud to work for “the new American Airlines,” which shares a  rich heritage of many venerable airlines such as TWA, Piedmont, PSA, Reno Air and Allegheny. But I am most proud of my fellow coworkers from the “former America West Airlines.” They are some of the best people I know.

AND I AM HONORED TO WORK BY THEIR SIDE!