During his three decades there he worked a variety of jobs, including ticket agent, baggage handler and painter.
More than 34 million people pass through J.F.K. each year and 35,000 more work there as baggage handlers, ticketing agents and security guards.
We're forever blaming the airline industry for turning us into monsters: it's the fault of the ticket agents, the baggage handlers, the slowpokes at the newsstands and the fast-food restaurants.
Northwest has yet to sign new contracts with its 9,000flight attendants and 27,000mechanics, baggage handlers and ticketing agents.
Northwest hasn't signed new contracts with its 9,000flight attendants and 27,000mechanics, baggage handlers and ticketing agents.
In the service industries, such as air transportation, the division and specialization of skills can be observed among ticket agents, pilots, navigators, baggage handlers, flight attendants, maintenance crews, and traffic controllers.
(The baggage handler, mechanic and ticket agent were also there).
For her first two weeks on the Presidential ticket, Palin was kept cocooned by handlers, except at rallies, where she read an adumbrated version of her Convention speech over and over, even as many of its claims were being debunked.
In 1999, the two airports employed 47,000 people in what are known as on-airport jobs: mechanic, ticket agent, restaurant worker and baggage handler.
