Jim Tabor, Vice President, Operations, joined AirTran Airways in 2001. He is responsible for system operations control (SOC), dispatch, charter operations, crew planning and scheduling, operations analysis, and ATC/Airfield operations.
Tabor previously served as Senior Director SOC for America West Airlines. He started his aviation career in 1981 as a station agent for Piedmont Airlines in Roanoke, Va. By the mid-1990’s, Tabor was leading planning, operational, and crew resources functions for US Airways as Senior Director of Operations.
Tabor earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Eastern Nazarene College in Wollaston, Mass. He also possesses an Aircraft Dispatcher certificate. Tabor has two daughters: one resides in Columbus, Ohio, and the other and her family reside in Algonquin, Illinois. He and his wife currently live in Orlando, Fla. |