American Airlines Celebrates Experience and Expertise, Honors Team Members With 45 Years of Service
August 15 2018 - 12:23PM
Last night, American Airlines honored 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 have
contributed nearly 11,000 years of experience to the airline.
“We are all here tonight because we want to thank you and let
you know that we stand on your shoulders,” said American’s CEO Doug
Parker during remarks at the evening event. “Because of all that
you’ve accomplished and all that you’ve done, we have the honor to
be able to lead this company and live up to the legacy that you’ve
created.”
This year’s honorees began their careers with 11 different
heritage carriers: AirCal, Allegheny, American Airlines, Eastern
Airlines, Empire Airlines, Mohawk Airlines, Ozark Airlines,
Piedmont, PSA, Trans World Airlines (TWA) and USAir. More than 230
team members and their guests attended the special event, which
included dinner, dancing and entertainment from music legend Tony
Orlando. More than 400 team members met the impressive
threshold.
Team members shared some of their favorite memories during the
event:
“I love my job just as much today as I did when I was first
hired. In 1958, my family flew first class to Mexico City on
American Airlines, where the crew gave me a junior stewardess
ring,” remembered ORD-based Flight Attendant Mary Michell Uggen.
“In the ninth grade, I did a class presentation on why I wanted to
be a stewardess and put together a booklet. Sixty years later, I
still have the booklet and my junior stewardess ring.”
“In 1969, I was working the ticket counter at Newark Liberty
International Airport, and Frank Sinatra asked me if the gate was
far,” commented Thomas Culp, a Fleet Service team member based at
Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut. “I said,
‘Yes, you know what the song says, These boots are made for
walking,’ which was his daughter Nancy Sinatra’s hit song. We
shared a good laugh.”
“It was in the 1970s, I was pre-med at the
University of Georgia working as a waitress when a group of
customers offered to tip me with a flying lesson,” shared Suzanne
Alley, a recently retired Airbus A319 Captain. “I surprised them by
showing up the next day for my free lesson and knew right away this
was what I wanted to do with my life. One of my best memories in my
career and one I’ll remember forever was being a part of the first
all-female crew to fly for a commercial airline.”
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
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