The Big Pink Plane

Mary Jo, along with about one hundred ten fellow Delta employees, all of whom are breast cancer survivors, were honored by Delta Airlines with a very special and emotional event held yesterday (September 30th).  The multi city event honored these special ladies and also helped mark the kick off October, which is officially breast cancer awareness month.  Delta is a huge supporter of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and has a lofty goal of raising one million dollars for this cause in the month of October through donations, sales of special merchandise and on board sales of special items.  The breast cancer survivors were all hand selected and flown to Atlanta from around the system on Wednesday.  Thursday morning the ladies started the day with a special ceremony held in Atlanta.  The ladies along with CEO Richard Anderson and many of the top brass then boarded a specially painted pink Boeing 767 and were flown to Detroit for a second ceremony.  The ladies were treated like royalty and wined & dinned on board the aircraft.  After the Detroit ceremony, they all boarded the same pink plane and flew on to MSP.  Mary Jo's friend, Jamie Page used her Delta connections to get me into the secure hanger so I could see Mary Jo's pink plane pull into the huge hanger and cheer for all the ladies as they deplaned the big "pink plane".   



Delta breast cancer survivors



It was a very emotional experience seeing all the survivors in pink standing on the airstairs of the pink 767.  A special final reception was held in the hanger before the ladies boarded buses and were shuttled downtown to the Raddisson for a cocktail reception happy hour and hotel rooms for every survivor.  To top off the special day, the ladies were all given Twins tickets to Target Field to attend a Twin-Blue Jays game.  Mary Jo and I had an incredible evening experiencing Target Field on a beautiful fall evening. 




MJ and Kevin at Target Field