Donors have raised more than $100,000 for a John Wayne Airport employee who caught the attention of a traveler from Utah when she looked out the window of a terminal at the Orange County airport.
LaCinda Thackeray was at the airport in Santa Ana when she noticed the employee in a high-visibility vest appearing to struggle as he walked near the gate area. She posted of video of the man on TikTok asking, “Does anyone know this man at John Wayne Airport? Watching him work so hard, even thought he could barely move, truly broke my heart.”
She was soon connected with a co-worker who identified James Blair, an aircraft refueler at the airport…