Remember the scene in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” when the lucky children get their first glimpse of the candy factory – chocolate waterfalls, gum drop trees, marshmallow mushrooms… – and the look on Charlie’s face as he enters Wonka’s world of “Pure Imagination”? That scene was virtually duplicated at Boeing’s Puget Sound assembly… Read more »
The International Women in Aviation Conference is always a fun collaboration of women and men coming together to reach a very important common goal – inspire women and girls to flourish and become leaders in the aviation industry. Every year, people from all over the world connect and engage with one another to make a… Read more »
Missed part one? Catch up here. In the DFW control center, their main function is to orchestrate the aircraft traffic coming in and out of the airport to ensure a safe, orderly operation. Like maestros conducting a symphony, the Envoy ground traffic controllers and coordinators carefully arrange the DFW ramp into a beautiful song composed… Read more »
From corner to corner lining every wall, desk and table, computer monitors light up the room of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) Virtual Control Center. The screens cover the room in a sky-blue hue while dozens of employees talk quietly over phones and headsets, and decipher the labyrinthine charts and diagrams on the glowing monitors. In the… Read more »
During the 2017 summer, twelve interns from colleges around the U.S. worked in various departments at Envoy Headquarters in Irving, Texas. For ten weeks, they were heavily involved in a wide array of projects in departments like Flight Safety, Communications, Finance and Flight Operations. Envoy interns also spent time learning airline operations with visits to the Dallas-Fort Worth… Read more »