Get a Job at the Airport

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Going somewhere If it’s far away you’ll probably take an airplane Visiting a large airport is a lot like entering a gigantic mall There are shops everywhere Escalators and moving sidewalks carry people up and down and back and forth Small electric cars ferry passengers to their next flight There are restaurants televisions newsstands and waiting areas In some airports there are even train stations Unless you look out a window you may actually forget you’re at an airport It takes a small city of employees to operate the airport Some of these workers fly the planes Others help you get your airline tickets Still others make sure your luggage arrives at the same place you do And these are only some of the jobs To learn more about working at an airport we’re sending the ever curious and often clumsy Jeremiah Oliver Baumgartner on a family vacation Everyone calls Jeremiah Job because of his initials Now Job isn’t a real kid but the kinds of workers he encounters on his trip to the airport are This book will give you lots of great information about these jobs Next time you take off for parts unknown see how many of these workers you can spot Flight Fact There are more than 600,000 people working in the United States 13,000 airports 4