{"id":12753,"date":"2019-12-16T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:01:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T14:01:45","slug":"home-holidays-capt-daren-wilde-skylar-wilde-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/12\/16\/home-holidays-capt-daren-wilde-skylar-wilde-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home for the holidays: Capt. Daren Wilde and Skylar Wilde"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 2017 was an important milestone for the Wilde family. While\u00a0Daren Wilde<\/strong>\u00a0joined Envoy as a First Officer, his son, Skylar, began a two-year mission with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which required limited contact with family members and no in-person visits for the duration of the mission.<\/p>\n

Fast forward two years, and last week Captain Wilde was able to surprise his son on his return flight from Baton Rouge (BTR) to Dallas\/Fort Worth (DFW), and accompany Skylar back to their home in Salt Lake City (SLC) to spend the holidays together as a family.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now boarding\u2026<\/h3>\n

\u201cThis is a nice plane; doesn\u2019t your dad fly these?\u201d was the talk as Skylar and his friends from the Church boarded the Embraer 175 aircraft. \u201cHe does, but he\u2019s Chicago based,\u201d replied Skylar.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s discussion was interrupted as the pilot made his introductory announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood morning and welcome to flight 3305 with service to Dallas\/Fort Worth. I\u2019m Captain Wilde\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Dude, the captain\u2019s name is also Wilde!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026and we have a special group of people on today\u2019s flight\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when it hit home. Flight Attendant\u00a0Patti Wilson<\/strong>\u00a0moved out of the way to reveal Capt. Wilde standing in the galley making the announcement and explaining the surprise to customers on board.<\/p>\n

With tears of joy, Skylar ran up to hug his father, with applause from customers and cheers from his traveling Church friends.<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/a><\/p>\n

It takes a village<\/h3>\n

This surprise and emotional moment came after close coordination with the Crew Scheduling team at Envoy Headquarters (EHQ) and the Envoy Customer Services team at BTR. While Crew Scheduling was able to assign Daren \u2013 a Chicago-based Embraer 175 Captain \u2013 to a DFW-based aircraft and flight, the team in BTR worked with TSA to screen Daren away from the security checkpoint, so that he was not spotted by his son prior to boarding. The flight deck door was also closed during boarding to ensure the surprise went as planned.<\/p>\n

From BTR agents to DFW-based crewmembers; everyone was excited to be part of this event to reconnect a pilot with his son for the holidays.<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/a><\/p>\n

Home for the holidays<\/h3>\n

After customers deplaned, the group stayed behind and it was all smiles as father and son reunited again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t believe it; this really is amazing,\u201d said one of Skylar\u2019s friends. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank everyone for making this happen,\u201d said an understandably cheery Capt. Wilde. \u201cWhile we were able to briefly speak over the phone from time to time, we haven\u2019t seen each other since I started with Envoy. The mission has been great for Skylar; he\u2019s grown a lot over the last two years. I\u2019m hoping he catches the flying bug and flies for us one day, too!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI already have the bug!\u201d replies Skylar. And when asked about the experience of having his dad fly him home for the holidays? He simply says \u201cIt was amazing!\u201d<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays to the Wilde family!<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 2017 was an important milestone for the Wilde family. While\u00a0Daren Wilde\u00a0joined Envoy as a First Officer, his son, Skylar, began a two-year mission with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which required limited contact with family members and no in-person visits for the duration of the mission. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":41964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}