A few things in this life are so fundamentally compelling that despite months of planning and anticipation the event itself is so overwhelming, so captivating, that memories become a blended blur of the real and the imagined. Having a child is such an experience. So is taking off in a brand new Boeing 737-700.
Last month, you may remember leaving me and my wife, Cathy, three Southwest Airline captains and three charming ladies from the airline’s Flight Ops in Chicago on the tarmac at Boeing Field in Seattle. Our assignment was to deliver a new airplane to the airline’s Phoenix base. Incredibly, some of the assembled crowd even got paid to do this.
