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Envoy Air’s Chris Pappaioanou — ‘Doing the Right Thing’ and Getting Results

Photo credit: Patrick Kleineberg

One afternoon in January 2001, Chris Pappaioanou, a customer service agent with Great Lakes Airlines, was loading luggage at Telluride’s airport for a flight heading to Phoenix when he handed his résumé to Mesa Airlines CEO Jonathan Ornstein, who was boarding a plane.

Weeks later, Pappaioanou was hired to be the Mesa’s vice president of legal affairs.

Mark Curriden

Mark Curriden is a lawyer/journalist and founder of The Texas Lawbook. In addition, he is a contributing legal correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.

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