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Old Jul 18, 2010 | 4:35 pm
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Kanis91
 
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Originally Posted by drat19
I was waiting at the gate for my outbound flight in ATL once several years ago and there were photographers and the Captain's family waiting to greet the inbound aircraft, on which the Captain was flying his final/retirement segment. Like what you saw that your arrival gate, it was a lovely ceremony...a very nice "human touch" to what is normally an "inhuman" (read: often routine/impersonal) experience.
How long ago if your remember?

I was on a Delta 777 pilot's retirement flight in Jan 2002. I was flying from MCO - ATL. All I remember, since I was 10, was the FO making a statement over the PA as well as the Captain's wife. Also the fire trucks did the water gun salute, which a 10 year-old finds really cool.
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