There is a sad song and a painful cry inside of me for every person I knew that has passed away.
Today is heavy with a new sad song and new tears. The airline I loved closed its doors yesterday. It’s last move, last flight, was done two days ago and now it is all over. Fifteen years ago I found a new family in World Airways and for the first time in my life I fell in-love with a job and a company. Not just any company, but a company with a great history.
Born in 1948, 66 years ago, World Airways was the child of Mr. Edward Daly, who bought it for $50,000 when he was 27 years old. Mr. Daly “was a huge philanthropist and a giant humanitarian” (A Vietnamese Fighter Pilot in an American War, by Hoi B. Tran).
“World ferried thousands of refugees out of Eastern Europe after the Hungarian revolt of 1956, and in 1975 Mr. Daly piloted a plane on an unauthorized airlift of South Vietnamese orphans” (NY Times). A few years back, one of the World Airways planes, painted in the colors of the planes back then, took some of the now grown up Vietnamese children back to Vietnam in an emotional reunion.
One of the flights to Vietnam, filmed and reported:
This is the airline we worked for. What history! What mission! What love!
We will forever miss the great people and adventures, the great experiences and fun during the years with the wonderful World Airways.
Most of us would agree that World was the best airline to work for. The people we worked with, the places we visited, the long layovers we enjoyed… and being well paid for all of it. Wow! What a ride! We were so lucky to know you, World Airways. As George Burns said, “the airline that’s so good, they named a whole planet after it”:
Rest in peace World Airways, my love. We will never forget you.
We now have to look forward, as the past will not return. We have to put hope in a better future. After working with you, better will be a real high standard to break through. Yet, it has to come… Humanitarian organizations might be the answer for me. I hope we all will find our way, a new path of love and passion.
Ce frumos si trist ai scris…din inima se vede…
Si mie imi pare rau, speram totusi sa se indrepte lucrurile…si pentru tine si toti colegii tai frumosi si zambitori ( ai remarcat ca toti rad pe cand aici se zambeste numai, o fi si din cauza danturii lor perfecte?)
Cat despre tine daca asta vrei , Universul a primit deja cererea ta de intentie si sa vedem ce vine spre tine ( un drum de dragoste si pasiune asa cum frumos ai spus )…
Merci mult draga Titiana. Esti o scumpa.