Love is in the air as married Delta Air Lines pilots command their first flights together
Brent and Kelly Knoblauch met when Kelly accepted an internship at Delta Air Lines in 2010. She said Brent was the first person she got to know at the company, and they’ve been more or less inseparable ever since.
“Every weekend we’d go travel,” she said. “It was crazy, it was a really fun, exciting time.”
Brent said that the two have grown their careers together since they married 10 years ago, and recently got to fly together professionally for the first time.
“Our careers have really stepped together,” he said. “Last month was the first time we were able to sit in the same flight deck together.”
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The Knoblauchs said a lot of pieces had to fall into place for them to fly together last month.
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Their first trip together in January took them from their home base in Atlanta to Panama City, Panama, back to Atlanta, and then on to Bradley airport outside of Hartford, Connecticut, and back home to Atlanta. Brent said that final flight wound up having to divert to Charleston, “not for marital issues, just for more gas.”
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