This Thanksgiving I want express my gratitude for all the wonderful memories I have from my career at Continental. The name is gone, but the memories will live on forever. There were good times and great times and not so great times, but looking back I am grateful for it all. I would never write a story like the one I lived and now I would not change one line. I am blessed.
The people I have met and worked with, the experiences I have had, the things I have learned are all some of the most memorable of my life. I am most grateful for the people I have worked with. We have faced some rather challenging times at Continental, just like people at other airlines have. I believe the difference in my experience is our ability to rise above them and not let them defeat us or turn us against one another. We’ve had our quarrels, but we worked through them and moved on, we didn’t let them define us.
Here are some of the things I remember best.
Downtown PDX and SEA layovers
Burritos from El Paso
Prime Rib, Ceasar Salad and Pies in First Class
The A300
Flying Air Mike
“Flaps 25, Gear Down, Landing Check, 30 with the green”
Takeoff Data Cards
CTRs (Crew Time Report)
Colored Boarding Passes with seat number tabs
The “Junk Jet”
9/11/01
Paris
Being a Second Officer, Really
No Security Checkpoints
The IAH train before Disney fixed it
The Noodle Shop
Cooling Doors
My Captain Checkride to ORD
Charlie McKeevers
Rick Watkins
The Taj Mahal
Jim,
ReplyDeleteHow effectively you shared your many memories in so few words. A truly lovely farewell post to a remarkable airline. Christine