The Breakfast Club
An Affiliate of
the
The Knife & Fork
Breakfast Club Lands in
12 Feb 2011
by Warren McIlvoy
The Breakfast Club
finally made it to one of the last bastions of civilizations in
The new Million Air building opened in mid January but the restaurant was delayed due to the late delivery of the needed equipment. By the end of the month, the kitchen equipment had arrived but they were still lacking the tables and chairs for the dinning area. I had kept in constant contact with the manager and they were still hoping to be open by are arrival date but I was scrambling for an alternative location if they were unable to accommodate us. As luck would have it, their furniture arrived on the Wednesday before our scheduled fly-in date. On the Friday before our arrival, they had sort of a “shake-down” run by offering free food for the folks around the airport to work most of the bugs out.
To add just a touch of doubt to our fly-in schedule, the
weather during mid-week was putting the fly-in event in jeopardy. But by Friday morning, everything cleared-up
and Saturday morning was offering gorgeous flying weather. My usual route that is loaded into the Garmin
GPS is to a user defined waypoint that is near the north end and just to the
west of the White Tank Mountains. From there it is direct to JUDTH intersection and then direct to
One of the approach controllers noted the large influx of traffic for a Saturday morning and inquired about what was happening. I informed him that the Breakfast Club has a scheduled fly-in today. He asked where there was a place to eat on the field and I told him that Million Air had just opened a new restaurant as part of their new facility. He later asked if they were offering free food today and I responded “in your dreams”.
As I recall, all but two people got the runway 26 assignment but one person had to use runway 8 and one had to use runway 3 left. Eventually we ended-up on the ramp at Million Air. Another unusual item was they were parking us right in front of the new facility which during the week is filled with larger business aircraft.
Just before we headed for the café, I gave a few folks a brief tour of the new facility including the “movie room” with its reclining armchairs and the subdued lighting. The main lobby had a popcorn machine in one corner and a coffee maker in another. In the middle of the room was the reception desk where Sandra greeted us with some fresh baked cookies (just what I needed).
The Jet-A-Way Café
is accessed via a short hallway on the north side of the lobby. The café is not overly large but adequate for
our needs. The tables would normally
accommodate about 16-people but we had 21 so they brought-in some chairs from
the lobby area for our use. The
breakfast menu is not overly large and seems to cater more to the lunch
crowd. The breakfast entrees were served
in Styrofoam containers well suited for the carry-out trade but would suffice
for today. I had the “Hungryman’s” croissant that had fried eggs, bacon, cheese,
and sausage paddy. I thought that it was
quite tasty and quieted my growling stomach.
The entrees did not come with any sides (potatoes or toast) but were of
sufficient size to make them unnecessary.
As it turns-out, the Breakfast Club were their first paying
customers. I suspect that as time goes
on, that they will change some things and maybe add others. The Jet-A-Way Café is not usually open on
weekends but did open for our fly-in event.
I suggested to Manny, the manager of the FBO that they might want to
reconsider that policy as the gang of $350 weekend fliers that line the
All-in-all, the new Million
Air facility is a first class operation and might warrant a visit just to
see what is new in
The Yuma Group
- Warren & Jeri-Ann
McIlvoy in 93MB, BC-1 & 1.5
- Jim Palmer in 9313H
- Larry Jensen in 14LJ,
BC-65
- Richard Azimov and Harry
Sunshine in 6864Q, BC-2
- Chris Zollars in 7730T
- Don Graminski in 9064V,
BC-16
- John Rynearson in 3501S,
BC-117
- Greg Coomans, Doug
Doehrman, and Libby Vance in 2493Q
- Marguerik Baier and Traci
Leider in 75840
- Richard Spiegel and Sam
Foote in 15040, BC-3 & 53
- Ken Claman and Gena
Lighthouse in 3293Y, BC-26
What’s Next?
Our March fly-in event will be to
To view some photos of this fly-in event, click on Yuma photos.