JIM ARPEY 1969 - 1972 VICE PRESIDENT-OPERATIONAL SERVICES, VICE PRESIDENT - TECHNICAL SERVICES DEN AA CEO has FL connection "Last night I watched - "American Airlines, A week in the life of an airline". It aired on CNBC (financial channel) and I am guessing that other FALers watched. I think it was a great presentation of the costs, the people, the ticketing, the crews, the passengers, the profit & loss calculations from a fully load transcontinental trip at today's fuel pricing. The entire picture of running an airline is represented. The show had ongoing interviews with Gerard Arpey, the CEO of AA. I guess he has quite a positive record of seriously working with labor & management to make a successful airline. Maintenance people have come up with many ideas to save millions..... Apparently the only U.S. major airline not to go into bankruptcy. About 5 minutes into the show, as Gerard Arpey was being interviewed, he made reference to his father: JIM ARPEY (James W. Arpey). The TV show showed a picture of Jim and I jumped up and turned on my PC to record the show About 9+ months ago, I wrote you a long letter describing life in the Inventory Control Department where I worked between 1967 - 1970. I had also remembered the late Blaine Liles who originally hired me. You put this letter on the site and also in a newsletter of about 2 cycles ago. In this letter I mentioned that I had worked under JIM Arpey who had come in from Transworld Airlines to be the VP of Technical Services (including Maintenance) - at the "new" facility on Smith Road. (I still have a "thank you letter" from Jim, dated December, 1970 - given to me when I left the company). So I jumped when I pieced together the father-son relationship of the two Arpeys. It was not surprising to see that Gerard had a long term and apparently positive career within the airline industry. His father, Jim, was always a hard driving, hard working man and always seems to have an upbeat sparkle to his demeanor. And as many FLers know, the airlines and aircraft DO get in your blood. I will write Gerard Arpey to see if he can shed any light on Jim's life after FAL. I haven't determined at this writing if Jim is still with us or if he hast departed. If my guesstimate is at all close to being accurate, Jim would be in his early 80s or so. BUT my math guesses could be way off. I am curious to know if any FLer can fill in any gaps of the Maintenance Management, group, including Jim Arpey, for the time period 1970 on for a few years. My life meandered away from FAL when I left, and I don't know how the stories played out. My recollection is that there were several TWA executive who hired on - at (yet another) time of FAL difficulties." -Darren Weeks (10/19/06) Jim Arpey obit: http://www.shmfh.com/obituaries/James-Arpey/#!/TributeWall Jim Arpey came to FL with the E. Paul Burke package, in late 1968, just after Gerry O fired Lew Dymond. The new Burke management team came to FL from TWA and they were picked by Gerry O Neil to replace Dymond. Paul Burke brought Bob Galloway and Jim Arpey with him. The unannounced Friday afternoon massacre occurred when O'Neil sent in Al Feldman, Ryland and Wayne to replace Burke's team. I never knew what happened to Burke after the FL management massacre. Both Bob Galloway and Arpey were quickly hired by Texas International in top executive positions and moved way up after Lorenzo took control of TI. I knew both Galloway and Arpey personally and had contact with both after I became a CO employee. -Otto Smith (1/5/18) An Oct 1969 news item notes Jim's arrival at Frontier. His last mention in my FLiles was in the Apr May 1972 FL News. He is not in the 1972 annual report. Another news item said his Continental career ran 1972 - 1990 -Jake Lamkins (1/18/18) FLacebook - FL Club FLight West: Jim Arpey DEN vice president-technical services Jim Arpey's memorial webpage is posted at http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Jim_Arpey.html Jim's time at Frontier was short but he had a long airline career. His son Gerard headed American Airlines. Post your remembrances of Jim. -Jake Lamkins (1/18/18)