After 64 years on the job, flight attendant Ron Akana retired with one final trip to Hawaii on Sunday, according to Hawaii News Now.

Akana is from Honolulu but currently lives in Denver, Colo. He began working for United Airlines in 1949 and served through the era when airplane fare consisted of seafood salad and passengers spent the flight hanging out at the cocktail bar.

The New York Times profiled Akana in March: 

Yes, Mr. Akana has worked as a flight attendant for 63 years, clocking some 20 million miles along the way, the equivalent of circling the globe about 800 times or flying roughly 40 times to the moon and back. Though no one tracks seniority across all airlines, he is widely believed to hold the title of longest-serving flight attendant in the United States.

“People keep on telling me to apply to the Guinness Book of Records,” he said. “I’ll let somebody else do that.”