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Chuck Halligan is a guy who gets things done – whether it’s reconfiguring our aircraft with new interiors or positioning planes for the perfect shot seen in some of the photos on this website.

Chuck joined the Atlantic Southeast team in 1994 as a cleaner and worked his way up the ladder while taking classes toward earning his airframe and power plant licenses (A&P) when we operated a maintenance base in Macon, Ga. Since then, he’s relocated to our Atlanta hangar and has come to be known as the go-to guy when a big job comes along. Recently, Chuck was instrumental in several large undertakings in our Maintenance division, including supervising the transition of 14 aircraft into our United Express operation.

“The United Express transition was a big job for sure,” Chuck said. “During the first round of reconfigurations, we had just over a month to repaint and install completely new interiors in eight aircraft. Our team worked 24/7 to give those planes a top-to-bottom overhaul so they would be ready on day one of United flying.”

The team included a group of day shift and night shift mechanics who were devoted to safely transforming our fleet, and according to Chuck, they poured a lot of pride into the transformation project.

“There’s no doubt that this was a team project,” he said. “Ask any of our mechanics who were involved and they’ll tell you that a tremendous amount of pride went into this job.”

Soon after the United fleet transition project wrapped up, Chuck began his next big project – overseeing work to add first class cabins to our fleet of 38 Delta Connection CRJ700 aircraft. Thanks in part to Chuck and his team for their oversight of the reconfigurations, more Atlantic Southeast customers flying Delta Connection will be able to ride first class on our aircraft to wherever their travel takes them.