ChimpJet (RJ) Retirement Ceremony

[McNugget]

An escort from the gate to the other side of security so someone can take your company I.D., usually a secretary.

Funny! Would suck if you had to turn your ID in to the intern!

 

[Terrain Terrain]

not exactly, but something very similar happened to a PDT capt on his last day before retirement a few years ago.

I know who/what you are talking about. What a crapfest. For a captian that NEVER called in sick for like 30 years. This place sucks.

PDT is doomed. Run, run, as fast as you can from PDT.

The managment is like a bunch of drunk retards trying to play poker in vegas. Way screwed. and lear I know you are mainline, but really mainline has taken some huge craps on PDT, you have been here you know.

 

[wmuflyguy]

Funny! Would suck if you had to turn your ID in to the intern!

Seen it happen.

 

[j41driver]

We had an RJ captain retire in ORD at Atlantic Coast. He got the full fire truck salute pulling into the terminal on his last day. Pretty cool.

I saw the "full fire truck salute" in IAD for one of our J32 CA's. IIRC, he was a C5 instructor prior to joining ACA.

 

[arthompson]

I saw the pictures of that when I was at ACA

 

[ATTCS]

I'll find out what happens in 9 months and 1 day....I'll let ya know...

 

[1x1]

When you shut down for the last time, you turn on your cell phone and find a message from the Fed Ex hiring dept. offering you that job - Oh ******************** your 60. Too bad.

 

[DrewBlows]

I've seen three retirements at three different airports for three different companies (that I can think of). Two 328JETs and a CRJ. Full fire truck salute each time, and I got chills each time. I think it would still be a cool ceremony even if it were a beech 1900 under the spray. It's a nice tradition that I'm sure dates way back in the days of commercial aviation (I'd be interested to find out the origin of this particular tradition.

 

[urflyingme?!]

I'm going to start calling in retiremnts from a payphone for myself!

 

[another cfii]

Heck, the way they build these barbie jets, i don't know if it'll withstand the water spray from the fire trucks.... may cause some severe hull damage!!