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United Airlines Top Flyer Tom Stuker Reaches 1 Million Miles In A Calendar Year
This is the latest travel milestone for Stuker, who in July 2011 was the first person to fly 10 million miles on United and United Express. With more than 13 million miles flown, Stuker is one of commercial aviation's highest-mileage travelers. (ir.unitedcontinentalholdings.com) 更多...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I have 1.7 million on AA and that took me over 10 years to reach. I can't imagine doing a million in 1 year. I love to fly and do a lot of business and pleasure flying but THAT sounds like torture to me. Even in 1st class!
poor guy, I can't imagine anyone having that level of paitence.
Wonder how much he paid for, as opposed to his company.
Andrea, exactly! He was getting a free ride! Thanks to the "Mileage Plus Program"!! Companies have a way to work the system with the airlines. Which, in my opinion, is one of the downfalls of the airline industry! They are giving tickets away...therefore losing revenue. Never did I think it would work to make the airline productive. Therefore, the airlines are going bankrupt, merging...cutting employee paychecks, retirement, medical...just to keep their nose above water! When I started flying in 1972, management put a lot of incentives to get people to fly. It worked for awhile and then, I feel, it got out of control. Now, the employees and the passengers are suffering. Management is getting their "Golden Parachute"...good to go and they will "BAIL", with "Mega Millions"! All the airlines, all the employees took a hit to safe their company because they cared and they were proud to work and wear that uniform. Now it's all about greed. Yes, we will only have 3 to 4 major airlines in the US of A. Sad but true! I'm greatful and proud that I flew when it was fun to fly!
And one more thing...In my 30 years of flying...I. went around the world 20 times! My butt didn't hurt but my feet sure did!
And if I may add...in 30 years, I put in 747,180 miles with and emergency here and there and the biggie was in Toronto when we lost #2 engine at 500 feet on a DC-10 on take off! All I can say about thatis that, "I walk away from anyother one"!!! But we got a full load out on the slides in less that 60 secs and the whole crew did what they were trained to do. I am a very proud United Retired Employee!!!
TheDC-10 was certified to take off on two engines. I do not see the reason for an evacuation. If you loose an engine you just go around, land and have maintenance take care of the problem.
agg1930...Yes but when #2 engine blows, like it did with United 232, all of the hydraulics failed! Fortunately, after that, they re-routed the the hydraulic system so it wouldn't happen again. We blew #2 but it didn't sever the hydraulic lines ...therefore...yes we flew with #1 and #3...Leveled her out and went around back to Toronto. Crew knew we blew #2 but we had a fire in #2 and it didn't register in the cockpit as a engine fire. We also had a fire in the Wheel Well. We were notified of the fire by the tower and appoaching aircraft. We went around and landed safely. We were foamed and the captain initiated the evac! Therefore we did what we were trained to do. I told my story to the United Training Center in Denver for 5 years to educate crew members, if in fact this incident would ever happen again. Thankyou it didn't because we resolved the problem after UAL232.
I see now that it was a lot more than just "loosing #2" Thank you for all the details. In all my flying days I only experienced two flights where we "lost an engine" but it was just a case of loosing power for reasons not as critical as having the engine blow up. Thanks again for your very detailed reply.
You are so welcome! If I can educate "flight crew members", I will do that. The DC-10 was a hurry up production to compete with the L-1011. And the L-1011 didn't last very long! Merry Christmas, agg1930!