Michael Trim is a Boeing 737/MAX captain for American Airlines with over 19,000 hoursand 32 years in the industry. At American, he has flown the Boeing 727, 737, 757, 767, and Airbus A300 aircraft in the European, South American, Caribbean, Latin, and North American divisions over the past 24 years.

Mike earned his first license while still in high school. He taught part-time in the Commercial, Airline Transport, and Flight Dispatcher curricula at Academics of Flight in Long Island City, later serving as a dispatch examiner and contract instructor to several airlines in South America. He achieved the grade of captain in the Civil Air Patrol (US Air Force Auxiliary) and was both their youngest search and rescue mission pilot and director of Cadet Programs in the Queens Group of the New York Wing at age 17.

He began his work history in the field of finance at the investment bank of Dean Witter Reynolds (now Morgan Stanley) where he served for 10 years, becoming their youngest corporate officer when promoted to AVP at age 21. He attended Fordham University and the New York Institute of Finance with the firm’s sponsorship, switching careers in 1990 to pursue his lifelong aviation aspirations. He served at America West Airlines, Guyana Airways, and American Eagle Airlines, before joining American in 1998. He was granted special authorization by American Airlines’ legal division to serve as a special advisor to IDAC and was the first director of the Escuela de Aviacion of the Academia Superior de Ciencias Aeronauticas (ASCA). In 1993, he was a key member of a team that assisted the government of Guyana in recuperating its FAA Category 1 rating, later serving as a designated operations inspector overseeing operational security of B757 international operations.