American Airlines Celebrates Team Members With More Than 14,000 Years of Combined Experience
September 21 2017 - 09:00AM
Last night, American Airlines (Nasdaq:AAL) honored more than
330 team members celebrating at least 45 years of service and 35 or
more years for pilots due to the mandatory retirement age. These
special team members’ tenure with the airline combines to total
14,767 years of experience.
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“We will work hard to be good shepherds of everything you’ve
built and we will never forget what you’ve done for American,” said
American’s CEO Doug Parker, during remarks at the evening
event.
This year’s honorees began their careers with 11 different
heritage carriers including Air Cal, Allegheny, American, Eastern,
Lake Central, Mohawk, Ozark, Piedmont, PSA, TWA and USAir. More
than 200 team members, and their guests, attended the special
event, with a 40s Cabaret theme, dinner and dancing.
Team members shared some of their favorite memories during the
event:
“We’re an airline family. I’ll never forget flying the
DC-9 as co-pilot for my Dad on his retirement trip on
Thanksgiving day 1979 and to top it off my wife, Chesta, was the
lead flight attendant on our three day trip.” - STL
based Captain Mark Ameel
“During a takeoff delay, due to weather, Liza Minnelli, her
assistant and I huddled together and brought out our most stupid
and embarrassing moments. Each one had to top the other. I laughed
so hard my stomach hurt.”- DCA based Flight Attendant Denice
Puesan
“I’ve had an incredible career. I can still remember taxiing an
aircraft for the first time, it was a DC-9 in Boston, and its
serial number was N979VJ.”- PIT based Aviation Maintenance
Technician
About American Airlines Group American Airlines
and American Eagle offer an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day
to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries. American has
hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami,
New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. American is a
founding member of the oneworld® alliance, whose
members serve more than 1,000 destinations with about 14,250 daily
flights to over 150 countries. Shares of American Airlines Group
Inc. trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AAL. In 2015, its
stock joined the S&P 500 index. Connect with American on
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