For our students and graduates in the US, we would like to wish you a happy Thanksgiving for you and your families. And for our other friends around the world who may not celebrate this holiday, we would still like to convey our deepest gratitude for you and for those times in which we have [...]
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A Letter from Mark and Joe
For our students and graduates in the US, we would like to wish you a happy Thanksgiving for you and your families. And for our other friends around the world who may not celebrate this holiday, we would still like to convey our deepest gratitude for you and for those times in which we have [...]
A Letter from Mark and Joe
“Today, my friends, we each have one day less, every one of us. And JOY is the only thing that slows the clock.” Travis McGee, in THE SCARLET RUSE by John D. MacDonald, 1973. This quotation is provided compliments of our returning instructor Rod Lewin and it is worthy of repeating here. Joy is one [...]
A Letter from Mark and Joe
School days, School daze. May is a month for graduations and we have had many at Higher Power this spring. We have graduated many B737 typed pilots with the Southwest and AirTran merger that joined the two prominent US low fare carriers and has resulted in aggressive growth plans. In fact, it has been so [...]
A Letter from Mark and Joe
The holiday season is one of our favorite times as we hear from new and old friends, graduates from around the world, even those who completed their initial training with us more than a decade ago. We enjoy reading the Christmas letters that a lot of you sent, giving us opportunities to celebrate with you [...]
A Letter from Mark and Joe
One of our favorite things to do is keep up with the lives of our students. It seems the time spent in classroom and simulator training flies by, at least for our staff, although we know that the marathon run of training is sometimes a slow grill. That is one reason we pour so much [...]
A Letter from Mark and Joe
2009 has been quite a year for all of us. First, our apologies go to so many of you that have been asking to see the Aviator. HPA is engaging a new website and a new process to send out the Aviators, however, it has taken much longer to make the change. In the future, [...]
‘Tis the season to be thankful
Ho! ‘Tis the Season to be Jolly, or so the song goes. The truth is for many during this season, it’s not a very jolly time. We are faced with challenges
A Letter From Mark and Joe
This is it, our 15th anniversary. We can’t believe it’s gone this fast. Faces, stories, memories flood to the forefront. Too many to recount here but they are cherished nonetheless. Who would have known that we would have over 2,000 grads hired by Southwest? Or that we would be serving the elite corporate customers whose [...]
A Letter from Mark and Joe
It’s PARTY TIME!!! Get ready to party like you mean it since on July 16, we will be celebrating HPA’s 15th year. Our special guest will be Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines. After his recent retirement as Chairman of SWA (now he only works 60 hours a week), Herb wrote us a letter thanking [...]