Growing up, my interest in the airlines started when I would ride with my mother to go pick up my father from the airport. While not being a pilot, he traveled on short business trips almost weekly and going to the airport to pick him up kept me around my local international airport as well as the slew of airlines that served it. In high school I gave the whole pilot training a go. With the majority of the lessons being paid for by my parents, I swept hangars and fueled the occasional plane at a small general aviation airport. Before heading off to college, my private pilot's license was acquired as well as a general understanding of how smaller regional airports are run. I spent one year at a major public university in the Mid-West that has one of the country's leading College of Aeronautics before deciding it was way too cold for a southern boy. I promptly moved back to Florida and attended one of the nation's other 3 top aviation colleges where I earned my Bachelor's of Science in Aviation Management, as well as my commercial, multi-engine, and instrument licenses. I interned with Delta Air Lines while in college and saw the world - in first class. With my degree under my wing (hah, the first of many puns I'm sure) I moved to Germany to begin work with a major cargo airline. After a good deal of time with that operation, I moved back state side and began work as an analyst for a major carrier in the southern United States. My name is Jesse Z., and I am offering my opinion and my opinion alone.
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