John Dunkin has overseen Donald Trump’s private aviation operations for more than two decades and was also an executive at the short-lived Trump Shuttle airline. Photo: ReutersWashington: If US President Donald Trump is seeking loyalty from whomever he appoints to oversee the nation’s aviation system, his personal pilot fits the bill. “The biggest part of my job is to make sure that everything happens seamlessly behind the scenes for Mr. Trump,” pilot John Dunkin said in a 2013 Smithsonian Channel documentary about the then-private citizen’s Boeing Co. 757 with its gold-plated trappings. Dunkin has overseen Trump’s private aviation operations for more than two decades was also an executive at the short-lived Trump Shuttle airline. Trump Shuttle operated only a few years before it went bankrupt and was purchased in 1992.

Source: Mint February 28, 2018 10:52 UTC