Last December, Envoy and American Airlines partnered with the Armed Forces YMCA (ASYMCA) to charter two flights sending soldiers and wounded warriors plus their families to the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, Texas. Envoy provided Embraer 175 and 145 jets to charter passengers from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; El Paso, Texas (Fort… Read more »
On Saturday, December 9, two special Envoy charters from Killeen-Fort Hood (GRK), Detroit and Pittsburgh, along with multiple mainline charters brought children from across the United States to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) for this year’s Snowball Express celebration. Presented by American Airlines, Snowball Express provides an all-expenses-paid vacation for Gold-Star families of fallen U.S. service members. During… Read more »
Today, Embraer celebrated the delivery of its 1,400th E-Jet, an Embraer 175, during a ceremony at its industrial facilities in São José dos Campos, Brazil. Envoy was proud to take part in the festivities, taking delivery of the jet on behalf of American Airlines. Envoy is one of the original ERJ operators and currently has… Read more »
The sun was barely peeking over the horizon, beginning to shed light across the ramps and runways at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). Inside the airport, shuffling through the crew lounge doors were two wide-eyed pilots reporting for duty. Only, on this morning, they were not preparing for flights but instead preparing for their moment… Read more »
Fifty-four years ago, Zane Lemon watched movies like John Wayne’s Flying Tigers, a World War II-era film about daring fighter pilots, and dreamed about a life of aviation. Sure enough, Zane joined the U.S. Air Force in 1970 as a fighter pilot on the F-4 Phantom and, after his retirement from the military in 1978,… Read more »