{"id":9148,"date":"2018-06-18T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=9148"},"modified":"2018-06-18T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:44:20","slug":"love-air-capt-philipe-abs-da-cruz-mathias-hoffmeister-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2018\/06\/18\/love-air-capt-philipe-abs-da-cruz-mathias-hoffmeister-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is in the Air: Capt. Philipe Abs Da Cruz and Mathias Hoffmeister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI remember looking at him and thinking, he\u2019s the one\u201d explains Envoy Capt. Philipe Abs Da Cruz<\/strong>, about meeting his husband, Mathias Hoffmeister <\/strong>while working for a Brazilian airline. Little did he know that just a few years later, the relationship would take the couple from Brazil to America, and from Envoy to American.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_FLT_Philipe_Abs_Da_Cruz-12\"<\/a>\u201cWe met while flying for a Brazilian airline \u2013 I was a pilot and he was a flight attendant\u201d says Philipe. \u201cOn a non-rev trip, the crew invited me\u00a0to join them afterwards\u00a0and we got talking. He asked if I was gay and I said yes. He went pale! We\u2019d seen each other around the system but never really talked before then \u2013 he thought I was straight!\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where it all began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I told him I was moving back to the United States, we got married and made the journey together. We both got jobs at Envoy while we waited to go through the immigration process \u2013 I became a First Officer and Mathias was a Passenger Services Agent in DFW and later MIA.\u201d<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t stay grounded forever, and soon the couple had another cause to celebrate when Mathias completed his U.S. immigration process and was accepted to enter training in American\u2019s 2018-13 Flight Attendant class.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelping customers on the ground is great \u2013 but the sky is where we both want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aviation is in the family<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cBoth being in aviation has made our relationship stronger,\u201d explains Philipe. \u201cWe understand our space and our schedules. We appreciate the time we get to spend together, wherever it is. Back when I was a First Officer, Mathias would non-rev out to spend time with me on overnights \u2013 little gestures like that make the world seem so much smaller than it really is. This industry is something special, and we wouldn\u2019t be where we are without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, June 15 \u2013 the middle of Pride month \u2013 Capt. Abs Da Cruz attended American\u2019s 2018-13 Flight Attendant graduation ceremony, where he presented his husband with his new wings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis feels like a new beginning for us \u2013 Mathias is excited and his happiness makes me happy, too. It\u2019s great to see him achieve his dream of being a flight attendant again. And knowing that we\u2019ll fly together one day when I flow to American makes that future even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Capt. Abs Da Cruz and Flight Attendant Hoffmeister \u2013 here\u2019s wishing for clear skies and tailwinds for the both of you!<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember looking at him and thinking, he\u2019s the one\u201d explains Envoy Capt. Philipe Abs Da Cruz, about meeting his husband, Mathias Hoffmeister while working for a Brazilian airline. Little did he know that just a few years later, the relationship would take the couple from Brazil to America, and from Envoy to American. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148"}],"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=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}