{"id":7043,"date":"2017-10-18T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T17:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T17:55:07","slug":"heroes-across-envoy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2017\/10\/18\/heroes-across-envoy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Across Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.envoyair.com\/index.php\/saving-lives-in-chicago\/\">our Chicago team\u2019s lifesaving efforts<\/a>, on Thursday, Oct. 12, the Envoy team in Houston (IAH) and the Envoy Flight Service team in LaGuardia (LGA) held\u00a0Real American Hero\u00a0events to recognize\u00a0<strong>Envoy Station Agent Cody Robertson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Flight Attendant Odessa Leitch<\/strong>\u00a0after they both saved customers\u2019 lives in separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_IAH_Cody_Robertson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_IAH_Cody_Robertson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_IAH_Cody_Robertson\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe\u2019re all very proud of Odessa \u2013 she\u2019s the first Envoy Flight Attendant to be recognized in the Real American Hero program for saving a life,\u201d said Vice President, Flight Service, Linda Kunz. Odessa earned her award by performing the Heimlich maneuver on a child who was choking during a flight from New York (JFK) to Montreal (YUL). While the flight diverted, the child\u2019s life was saved thanks to Odessa\u2019s training and quick thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Houston, Cody noticed customers in a state of alarm after a member of their group collapsed. As a student-pharmacist, Cody used his knowledge to perform chest compressions and assist the customer until EMTs arrived. The customer survived the ordeal thanks to Cody\u2019s care and decisive actions during the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Real American Hero award comes with a check for $1,000 and a very special hero cape. Here\u2019s to\u00a0<strong>Odessa\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Cody\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 your actions didn\u2019t just make a difference in someone\u2019s life, you saved it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Above:\u00a0<\/em><em>Vice President, Flight Service Linda Kunz (left) presents Odessa with her Real American Hero award.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of\u00a0our Chicago team\u2019s lifesaving efforts, on Thursday, Oct. 12, the Envoy team in Houston (IAH) and the Envoy Flight Service team in LaGuardia (LGA) held\u00a0Real American Hero\u00a0events to recognize\u00a0Envoy Station Agent Cody Robertson\u00a0and\u00a0Flight Attendant Odessa Leitch\u00a0after they both saved customers\u2019 lives in separate incidents. \u201cWe\u2019re all very proud of Odessa \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}