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HANGING UP THE WINGSOn January 15, 2009 I flew my last flight as a flight attendant and closed the books on an adventure that spanned the globe when I operated USA 3000 Airlines flight 778/779 round trip from DTW/RSW/DTW. From my first flight flying a Lockheed Electra in San Diego in 1977 to my last on an Airbus A320 I have met some of the best folks one could ask for. Since 1977 I have flown for twenty two years having flown and seen most of the world a few times over and would not have traded a day of it for all the money in the Kingdom. Most of the flying was just the usual routine operations one runs into in the course of a career,interspersed with an emergency or two so as not to get to board. Yet of all the chapters it was the UACI/ONA experience that is freshest in my mind. When I think of all the things we did with all the super people we knew and worked with,it was worth the experience in spades. It will never get better than that! People say memories are sometimes better than the experience,in this case they are both first rate my friends. On top of my computer is a small ONA DC-8 61CF N867F, I saw it in a magazine I was thumbing through in PHL before a trip and ordered it. Whenever I look at it I remember the best times of my flying career. Bob Levy |
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I joined ONA/UACA - United Air Carrier, Inc to fly the Hajj I think 1979 and stayed in Jeddah for on and off two years.The high points we the truely great crews we worked with in Jeddah, people really pulled together like no where else in our industry. We just flew the hell out of those DC-8 52's and 61's. Flew the Hajj one day in our blue and white ONA uniforms and the next a Saudia schedule in our sand colored uniform. For breaks there was always a BBQ going in Luna 1 as well as a little Sadiki to help things along after a day flying over the desert. Dinner parties were common in our Luna and you were always invited. The other great thing about living in Jeddah with these really great crews was the variety of nationalities ONA hired and we worked with from the UK, Thailand, Sweden, Greece, Taiwan and of course the U S. Anyone doubting that nations can live as one, need only see the Luna's in Jeddah. If that was not enough we had our share of babies born there as well and everyone in the Luna took pride in the the new born. I still fly after all those year and still enjoy it. I now fly with some nice folks too but my real flying family will be the family of ONA/UACA. Bob Levy ARAB NEWS AL AHRAM EGYPT 
JEDDAH HILTON SAUDI ARABIA Jeddah is the gateway to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. Although Riyadh is the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah is known as its commercial capital. Since Jeddah is situated at the Red Sea coast, it is also known as Bride of Red Sea. Jeddah, The Bride of the Red Sea  CAESARīS PALACE, LAS VEGAS |
I now work for USA 3000 and this makes twenty years of being a flight attendant. The Airbus A320 is a long way from the DC-8 and even the 747-200B we flew at JED,but I'll never forget this time in my flying adventure, never, never.
JEDDAH AIRPORT, SAUDI ARABIA KING ABDUL AZIZ INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT  SAUDI ONLINE 
 
 
 
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