I need any airline pilot retirement party ideas! Help!?
My husband is retiring from Southwest Airlines in mid June and I need pilot specific retirement party ideas! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks
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- Go to your local grocery store with a bakery and order a cake with either a SWA logo or a 737 in SWA livery. Find a place you can decorate with SWA colors, get a few dozen packs of complimentary peanuts, label coffee urns "Jet A" and "100LL" for, respectively, regular and decaf coffee, a keg of beer, labelled as Jet A-1, would help. See if you can contact some flight crew members to wear uniforms, ground personell, flight attendants, the like, and hang model aircraft. Most private FBO's have a hangar that they'll rent you for a limited time; it's pricey, but a guy only retires once, so see if you can cover a hangar for a few hours and have just enough aircraft left in to provide the smell and feel of aircraft waiting to be flown and still provide enough room for the guests to circulate. (All present aircraft should be locked and roped off for owner's privacy.) What can be done depends on how much you're willing to spend. With any luck, I've managed to point you in the right direction. And if you don't have fun with it, you're not doing it right. Best of Luck, JT
