GARY SUBOTER 1963 - 1969 STATION AGENT, JAMTO AGENT, RESERVATIONS SUPERVISOR, ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE, CITY SALES MANAGER, DISTRICT SALES MANAGER MHK GSW DAL ABQ While I was in ABQ we decided to promote the opening of the deer bow season in New Mexico. The publicity department in Denver invited all of the sports magazines, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, etc and I was to arrange the local publicity. Thinking it would be a grand idea I arranged to have the Apache chief Geronimo's great great grandson arrive from Alamorgodo and the magazine and newspaper people would be invited to hunt with him in the Sandia Mountains. Well everything was humming along....and one of the local speciality sporting goods stores donated a special bow and arrow set to the grandson. The big day arrived, the press were waiting, the chamber of commerce people and the State Game & Fish dept reps were there......the grandson comes down the steps....I present him with a key to the city and the bow and arrow set. His first words were "What's this for?" Seems I failed to take in account that an Indian might not have used a bow before !! Panic time !!! I believe it was Larry Baumgartner, the asst station mgr that kept the press from asking too many questions until I was able to whisk the grandson up to Sandia Mountains. There we practiced for about an hour until the press arrived by which time he was able to at least shoot the damn thing. The pictures turned out nicely and Frontier got some publicity and I got drunk!! -Gary Suboter (7/31/99) I remember Sherman (Cornstubble), but can't put a face with the name. I think it was Sherman that had a DC-3 on the apron outside the maintenance hanger, was testing the engines and the brakes came loose and he ended up in the gully !! They had to rig slings and lines to several tugs to get it out. I think it was in one of Central's newsletters. -Gary Suboter (8/14/99) I don't remember which DC-3 it was but I can sure remember standing out there with the wands in front of a lot of spectators, showing the captain where to park and him turning the ass end of the plane in my face! Looked like a jerk, then go into the ops room and look up the plane number and sure as hell it would be that one. As I remember we only had the one that parked different. I was a sales rep in DFW area in 1964-65...used to sell charters to the local universities football and basketball teams. (this was in the day's of the 3's and I'd sell two planes/two trips for the football charters. Many times on the day of the charter, I'd buy fruit at the local produce stand, get up before dawn the next morning, hit the dairy and buy white and chocolate milk, get to the airport, shine the fruit, store the milk, then help the F/A work the flight. Ahhhhhhhh...those were the days !! -Gary Suboter (12/5/99) Subject: Irma Spell I am Gary Suboter, FTW RES SUPV 1964 - DSM in ABQ 1968. I knew Irma while in Dallas. At that time she was married to an attorney, I believe. Lost track of her and many others after leaving FL. Now in ELP with own business for the past 27 years. Most of those I knew are gone. FL was one of the best experiences in my life. I still have some pictures, glasses, etc in storage here at home and on the wall. -Gary Suboter (8/3/02) My name is Jeffrey Alan Suboter and my father's name is Gary Suboter. My father was the district manager for New Mexico for Frontier Airlines in the late 60's. About two years ago he suffered a major stroke that has left him paraylized on his left side. Slowly recovering, I recently bought him a webtv to hook up to his TV so he could access the internet again. I would like to include him in the Yahoo group it at all possible. The following is a brief history of my father's Frontier history. I will need to ask him to varify the dates, but he worked for Central Airlines in Manhattan, Kansas, around 1963/1964 to 1965 - first as a baggage claimer, and then as a ticket agent. He was promoted to Sales Agent and we moved to Dallas, Texas in 1965 (around September). When Frontier bought out Central, my father was taken on and remained in Dallas for a few months until he was transferred to Albuquerque where he was later given the position of Regional District Mananger from 1967? to 1969. -Jeffrey Alan Suboter (3/30/04 My memories of my father working for Frontier are few because I was only a small kid when he worked for Frontier. But I do remember one day he dressed me up in a suit and tie and had me hand out tickets at the ticket counter at Albuquerque's airport and say something to the effect of "Thank you for flying Frontier." I couldn't have been more than 5 years old at the time. My dad said he remembered flights 512 and 515 going from Albuquerque to El Paso via Alamogordo and that it was a tough sell to get people to fly Frontier to El Paso when Continental was already providing jet service on that route. Frontier was/is a great airline and we tried to fly on it even after my father left the company. I flew to Albuquerque from El Paso on the "new" Frontier and it was an excellent ride. Best Regards, -Jeffrey Alan Suboter (3/31/04) My name is Alan Suboter. My father's name is Gary Lee Suboter. Just wanted to know if any of you knew of him or your parents knew of him. My father started with Central Airlines back in 1963 or 64 in Manhattan, Kansas. He started out as a baggage handler. He quickly moved up to ticket agent. He was then transferred to Dallas in 1965 around September. When Central was bought by Frontier, my father was able to stay on and worked in Dallas for awhile until he as transferred to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was made District Manager (I believe) for New Mexico in the late 1960s (which included El Paso). He quit Frontier in the early 70's and our family later moved to El Paso where he pursued other lines of work. -Alan Suboter (2/18/09) FLacebook - FL Club FLight West: Gary Suboter ABQ district sales manager Gary Suboter's memorial webpage is posted at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Gary_Suboter.html Gary held several positions in his short career at Central/Frontier. Post your remembrances. -Jake Lamkins (12/29/16)