* * * * * I swore to myself, dear reader, no matter how tough it got adapting to the States, I had to give it at least a year. No prematurely jumping ship. This was my final shot at making it with a US air carrier. Harold J. (Hap) Pareti, formerly an executive with People Express Airlines, broke off on his own, got backers, and formed Presidential Airways on 10 th October 1985. When I joined them, in April of 1986, they had a fleet of eight Boeing 737-200s servicing these cities: Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Indianapolis, Miami, Montreal, New York, Orlando, Portland, Sarasota and Savannah. Presidential at this period was a dynamic, low-cost, and rapidly growing airline. They were also cutting a deal for a bunch of BAE 1...