JOHN STEWART 1960 - 1983 STATION AGENT, PAYLOAD CONTROLLER, RESERVATION MANAGER, TICKET COUNTER SUPERVISOR CYS DEN PHX DAL STL MCI My name is John D Stewart: I was employeed with Frontier in Cheyenne, Wyo Nov 7, 1960 as a station agent. In 1964 I moved to Denver as Payload controller, in 1968 I moved to Phoenix as Reservation Manager and then to Dallas as Manager, to St Louis as assistant reservation manager to Kansas City on to Denver and back to Kansas City as Ticket Counter Supervisor until Oct 1983 when I retired. Please add me to the list I would be very interested in contacting people I worked with -John Stewart (3/9/05) Hi John, Great hearing from you. I'll send you an invite to the FL Club right away. There's also a FL newsletter - send your postal address and I'll get one off to you. Check out all the FL stuff at the website index below. I probably met you somewhere over the FL years. -Jake Lamkins (3/9/05) Hi Jake Thank you for sending me a copy of the Frontier News. I have enclosed a check for $15.00 for a subscription and the CD of back issues. I really enjoyed reading the articles and was shocked to see so many of my coworkers have passed on. I started with Frontier November 7, 1960 in Cheyenne Wyo as a Station Agent, in 1964 I transferred to Denver as a Payload Controller and later was made Assistant Reservation Manager. I was promoted to Manager of Reservation in Phoenix and opened a new CRO there March 1st of 1968. Late in 1968 Bill Monday the Director of Reservation sent me to Dallas as Manager and at that time the Reservation Office was in the hanger building at GSW. The best I remember for a short time some of the Flight Crews were checking in there and shuttling to Love Field in a Van, also Ken Gann had a Sales office there for a short time until they moved to the New City Ticket Office in downtown Dallas. Most of the building including the hanger was occupied by a company from Japan called Qualitron, (may not be correct spelling) they were doing electronic work on aircraft. We had contracted a lease for office space to move the Reservation Office to the Sanford Building located near downtown Dallas. We move the summer of 1969 to the new location. We were the last Frontier occupant to be in the hanger at GSW. The office in the Sanford building was closed late 1971 and consolidated into the St Louis CR0. Some of the Reservation Agents transferred to St Louis. This may help answer some of the questions about GSW. I have many stories and will forward some of them to you. I will write a letter about the reservation systems that we used from the old teletype to the computer age. -John Stewart (3/26/05) The letter from Herb Schmidt (Fall 2005 FL NEWS) brought back many memories of my days with Frontier. In the days of our CV340s, we served sweet rolls in the morning and a tray of finger sandwiches and fruit on the afternoon and evening flights. Working at CYS, being the last stop on the morning and evening flight to Denver, most of the time we seemed to have leftover rolls and sandwiches. When we started flying the 727s our meal service become full service steak, pork chops, steak and eggs, comp bottle of wine, hot towels and a little plastic toothpick in a plastic case. I was working in Payload Control in the Denver and for an evening out we would non rev on the 727 Denver to Kansas City, on board a nice meal with wine, and then return back to Denver that evening This year my wife and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary and our three children together presented us with an Alaskan Cruise along with a flight to SF0 and returning from SEA. The flights were on the new Frontier. It has been over 20 years since I have flown and expected many changes. The first was no paper ticket in hand, we had E tickets that I was to be able to get boarding passes off the Internet. However it did not work; I got them for my wife but not me. No big deal, when I called all I had to do was check in at the counter 2 hour prior to departure and show my ID. I noticed the ticket counter uniforms were pull over and T-shirts - no ties. The onboard service was Drinks and for $5 you had a choice of an alcoholic drink, movie or satellite TV. The service from DEN to SF0 with a light snack (a granola bar) and SEA to DEN, a small bag of chips. When the flight attendants went down the aisle with the snack if reminded me of a restaurant near Springfield Mo. that is noted for tossing dinner rolls. I had read and been told about the increased security so we expected many changes. I had to take off my shoes, my belt and suspenders. This was a real challenge to get on the other side of the detector carrying my shoes, belt, suspenders and carry on bag while holding up my pants, until I could got to a chair to get things back in order without mooning somebody. The old Frontier was famous for our customer service and I am very proud to have been a part of that service. I have talked with many people that remember Frontier for our service and wonderful meals. -John Stewart (11/21/05) J D STEWART Station agent seniority date of 11/7/60 on the 8/1/66 FL/ALEA seniority list. -Jake Lamkins (1/4/07) Note with subscription renewal Hi Jake: Enclosed is my check for the next year of the Old Frontier News. I enjoy reading it very much but am very sad to hear about the people who have gone West. The latest one is Lyle Anderson: he was a Reservation Agent when I started as Payload Controller in 1964 at Denver. Lyle was a great guy who loved to party. When we started service to El Paso several of us would make a booze run as we could get cheap booze across the border; at that time you could get one gallon per person. We could take the flight and rent a car, drive over the border get one gallon per person and then walk across at another border crossing and get one more gallon. It would leave us enough time to make the return flight. One of our reservation agents had it figured how she could rent the car and make 2 walking border crossings at a different gates. Lyle decided to try this method. However when he made his third crossing the Boarder Patrol Agent had moved over from the last gate and recognized him and would not let him cross back into the US with the booze, so Lyle made a dash back over and got his money back. The bad news is that it made him miss his flight and had to stay overnight. I remember several times when Lyle�s good nature and efforts went astray. I am enclosing a picture of me taken sometime around 1962. I was standing in the front entrance of then the new Cheyenne, Wyoming airport. This was the standard uniform for all agents. The pants were a early attempt at polyester material. They were to be dry cleaned however at a salary of $250 a month we could not afford dry cleaning so we washed them. My wife had to cut some off the legs several times as when they were washed they seemed to grow. When they got wet they were really heavy. The shirt was tan with Frontier Airlines on the pocket. In the picture my tie was being blown as the wind blows all the time in Cheyenne. Keep up the good work. -John Stewart, 1960 to 1983 (12/11/09) Hi John, Thanks for the photo and story about Lyle. I just got word his son died less than three months after him. Poor Jan - a double whammy! Do you need the photo back - I'm attaching a scan. I have some of those brown uniforms that an old agent gave me. I never wore them - it was the dress gray uniform when FL took over CN in Oct 1967. I recall how I hated to spend the money to dry clean them. But they did look sharp - my favorite FL uniform. Happy Holidays and thanks for your support. -Jake Lamkins (12/11/09) Thanks for the info on Lyle's son. Boy they are having all kinds of bad things. You can have the picture of me that I sent it is a copy off a old slide. -John Stewart (12/11/09) Letter with sub: Dear Jake Here is time to renew my subscription it seems like it rolls around faster every year. I enjoy reading the new letter and sad when I read about the friends and co workers that have gone west. l often think about some of the good times I had in my 23 years of working for Frontier. When I have read some of the stories about the DC-3s, I recall an aircraft that we had in the early years, it belonged to the Denver Bears Minor league baseball team. I think we furnished the crew and sometimes flew it on our routes. There were two things that made it different from our fleet, one it had a Bear painted on the side and two the passenger door and cargo door was on the opposite side. We had to remember to park it headed the right directions or the passengers had to board by going around the tail, the cargo door was really small about enough room to put a medium size suitcase, so most of the time we loaded the rear pit through the passenger door. Thanks much for you efforts in putting out the news Letter: -John D Stewart (11/15/10) FLacebook Hi, Got your request to join our group. Are you the CYS station agent John Stewart? -Jake Lamkins (6/16/15) Yes I stated in CYS Nov 1960 also was payload controller DEN, assist cro manager, cro manager PHX, cro manager DAL, assist manager cro STL and MKC and retired as sr ticket counter agent MCI. -John Stewart (6/16/15) Welcome aboard, John. We just had a post about PHXRR. Do you recall when we closed the PHXRR office? -Jake Lamkins (6/16/15) I opened PHX CRO Mar 1968 and was transfered to DAL 0ct 1968. I dont remember when it closed it was before DAL CRO was closed -John Stewart (6/18/15) FLacebook Jake I am sorry to inform you that John Stewart went to his heavenly home on Dec 19 at North Kansas City hospital. He had lung problems and it finally won. He was in hospices house and his family was with him. I will miss him - he was a special man. -Jean Stewart (his wife) (12/30/15) Dear Jean, I'm truly sorry to hear this. John and I had been in contact the past ten years and swapped many an old Frontier story. I last heard from him 6 months ago and I had no clue he was ailing. We will build a memorial webpage for him at the old Frontier Airlines website and I will get the word out to his many Frontier friends. Whe you feel like it, email me anything you wish added to his memorial webpage. -Jake Lamkins (12/30/15) FLacebook - FL Club Reservations manager John Stewart John's wife just texted me that he flew west Dec. 19 due to lung problems. John was res manager at PHX and DAL during his career at Frontier 1960-1983. -Jake Lamkins (12/30/15) J D STEWART DOB 3/30/36 DOH 11/7/60 per the Dec 1984 FL Pension records. He is not listed in any of my FL telephone directories. -Jake Lamkins (12/30/15) FLacebook - FL Club FLight West: John Stewart DEN PHX DAL STL MCI reservations manager John Stewart's memorial webpage has been posted: http://FAL-1.tripod.com/John_Stewart1.html Still need a full obituary for John. -Jake Lamkins (1/16/16)