Charlize Gutierrez-Lopez is getting a top-to-bottom look at American Airlines’ vast operations at DFW International Airport this week, touring everything from airplanes to the operations center where the carrier routes aircraft to gates.
American is starting early with students such as 16-year-old Gutierrez-Lopez, hoping the company can steer more young people into the industry, whether it be to fly airplanes or any of the hundreds of other jobs needed to get passengers and jets to their destination on time.
“It does feel like this is something I really could do,” said Gutierrez-Lopez, a home school student in Grapevine, Texas. “I want to go into the Air Force and going to this camp, it really opened up all these different career fields. It’s amazing.”
