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JacqueRae Hill via Facebook

Have you heard the story of how these two met in the air? 

JacqueRae Hill is a flight attendant working for Southwest Airlines. She was working a flight to Panama City. She happened to see Doug Parker reading White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo. Very much intrigued, she sat down and had a 10 minute conversation with him.

JacqueRae discovered that Doug Parker was not a frequent flyer of Southwest. He is actually the CEO of American Airlines, and flying Southwest because the flights on American Airlines were full due to COVID-19 and social distancing. He was reading that book because he felt that it was important to have these conversations during our difficult times. 

Read and hear from JacqueRae Hill about what happens next here at CNN.