Sweet: Mother and Son Pilots Fly Together at Alaska Airlines - The Bulkhead Seat

Alaska Airlines Celebrates Mothers Day With First Ever Mom and Son Pilot Team In The Cockpit Together

Alaska Airlines has celebrated Mother’s Day this year by making a dream come true for Captain Michelle Miles and her son, First Officer Jeff Miles, by arranging for the mother-son pilot duo to fly together just months before Michelle will hand up her pilot wings for good and retire. This wasn’t, of course, a chance event that Michelle and Jeff ended up flying together, and the airline fully admits that its chief pilot’s office had to get involve…

Sweet: Mother and Son Pilots Fly Together at Alaska Airlines - The Bulkhead Seat

Happy Mother’s Day to all who are celebrating today. Alaska Airlines has shared the rather touching story of a real-life mother and son who are both pilots for the airline. They recently flew together and became the first mother-son pilot team operating together for Alaska Airlines. Captain Michelle Miles and her son, Jeff, flew a Boeing 737 for the first time as a team last week between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Maui’s Kahu…

Mother and son pilots fly together in a milestone moment for Alaska Airlines

Jeff Miles fulfilled his lifelong dream last week by joining his mom, Captain Michelle Miles, in the flight deck, making history as Alaska Airlines’ first mother-son pilot team. Follow Aeronews on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Bluesky and TikTok Jeff Miles grew up watching his mom leave for work in her Alaska Airlines pilot’s uniform, never thinking much of it. After all, he thought, doesn’t everyone’s mom fly airplanes for a living? But as Jeff …

“Even a quarter of a mother is enough for ten lives, and there will still be something left over to hold on to in a moment of great danger.” — Odysseus Elytis, From NearbyMore...