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VOL. IX, NO.
TH£ WAY TO TRAVEL — ALL OVER PIEDMONTLAND
SEPTEMBER, 1967
JOHN G. HOGAN
President Davis
Appoints Hogan
President T. H. Davis has an
nounced the appointment of
John G. Hogan as Director of In
formation Services.
Hogan will assume responsi
bility for all matters regarding
press and community relations
and liaison with the various
civic organizations throughout
Piedmont’s system. In addition,
he will assist in preparation and
distribution of information to
state and community representa
tives and agencies as well as fi
nancial analysts.
Hogan, a native of Bingham
ton, New York, is a 1963 grad
uate of the University of Notre
Dame where he received a Bach
elor of Arts degree in Communi
cation Arts. He recently com
pleted a three year tour of duty
with the U .S. Coast Guard. His
major assignments were public
relations and information. He re
ceived his commission at the
U. S. Coast Guard Officers Candi
date School and served most re
cently as Public Information Of
ficer and Aide to the Admiral of
the 5th Coast Guard District.
SOP Re-Opens;
CHO Gets Jet
On New Schedule
Piedmont Airlines has an
nounced the resumption of Pied
mont’s seasonal service to the
Southern Pines-Pinehurst-Aber-
deen area. Service will be re
sumed effective with the Com
pany’s October 1 schedule
change.
Flight 400 offers morning serv
ice from Louisville and London-
Corbin, Bristol-Kingsport-John-
son City, Hickory and Charlotte.
From Pinehurst-S o u t h e r n
Pines the flight continues to
Fayetteville and Wilmington.
Flight 405
Return service from Wilming
ton is provided with Flight 405.
Following one stop in Fayette
ville the flight continues from
Pinehurst-Southern Pines to
Charlotte, Asheville, Tri-Cities,
Lexington-Frankfort, and Louis
ville.
Flight 619 will originate in
Southern Pines offering service
to Charlotte, Greenville-Spartan-
burg, Tri-Cities, Charleston and
Cincinnati.
From CVG
An early morning return from
Cincinnati will be Flight 654. De
parting Cincinnati this flight
stops at Asheville and Charlotte
in route to Southern Pines-Pine-
hurst-Aberdeen.
New non-stop jet service for
Charlottesville is also included in
the October 1 schedule.
Flight 4 will depart Charlottes
ville daily except Saturdays, for
non-stop jet service to New York
For return service. Flight 1
will depart LaGuardia Airport
daily except Saturdays, non-stop
to CHO.
Equipment Program Outline
For PAI All Turbine Fleet
Bruce Parrish Is Promoted To
Director Of Station Facilities
General Traffic Manager Ken
Ross has announced the promo
tion of Bruce Parrish to the
newly-created position of Direc
tor - Station Facilities. Parrish
was formerly Division Station
Supervisor—ATL.
In his new assignment Parrish
will be located at the home office
Winston-Salem. His responsi-
Fbilities will include immediate
and long range planning as it
pertains to office and operational
space in Piedmont’s stations.
This planning incorporates re
novations and additions.
Parrish is a native iof Golds
boro, N. C. He is a graduate of
King’s Business College and the
Central Airline School. He join
ed Piedmont in 1948 as an agent
at RDU. In 1949 Parrish was pro
moted to station manager in Dan
ville. From DAN he went to
Asheville in the same position
in 1951. He further worked as
station manager in Fayetteville
and Louisville until 1962' when
he transferred to Atlanta, again
as station manager. He was ap
pointed Division Station Super
visor in 1966.
Parrish is married to the form
er Virginia McClary of Raleigh.
By the end of 1967 Piedmont’s
fleet will consist of ten FH-227B
aircraft, 32 Martin 404’s (four of
which are leased) and one leased
Boeing 727.
During 1968 six Boeing 737’s
will be received. Eight Martins
and the Boeing 727 will be re
tired from service. Accordingly,
after completion of the present
new equipment program for
which financing has been ar
ranged, the Company will still
have a large number of piston-
powered Martins in the fleet.
There are a number of reasons
which strongly indicate the de
sirability of replacing the 404’s
with turbine-powered equipment
as rapidly as possible. Some of
BRUCE PARRISH
They have two sons.
In Atlanta Parrish was a mem
ber of the Masonic Lodge, Ki-
wanis Club and the Atlanta Base
ball Umpires Association. He
was also a deacon in the Presby
terian Church.
Expedite Motion
Is Filed with CAB
Piedmont has filed with the
Civil Aeronautics Board a motion
to expedite a hearing on its ap
plication requesting authority to
extend service to Charleston,
S. C., Savannah and Brunswick-
Sea Island, Ga., Jacksonville and
Miami, Florida. The original ap
plication was filed In June this
year.
Service Gap
The motion to expedite indi
cates that, of the 54 markets
which Piedmont v/ill serve under
its proposed schedules, 38 had no
single-plane service in July, 1967.
The route extension proposed
offers a prospect of unusual pub
lic benefits. Today, with a grow
ing community of interest be
tween the Piedmont area and
Florida, and with the availabili
ty of short-range jet aircraft
soon to be introduced over Pied
mont’s system, it has become
clear that a route extension to
Jacksonville and Miami is highly
desirable to fill a substantial
existing service void.
Five New Stations
Piedmont’s proposal envisages
the addition of five stations to
the company’s system: Charles
ton, Savannah, Brunswick-Sea
Island, Jacksonville and Miami.
In the motion to expedite, the
company forecasts a substantial
subsidy reduction with the grant
ing of the route and estimates
that 180,000 passengers in 54
markets would use this service
during the first year of opera
tion.
President T. H. Davis, com
menting on the motion filed to
day, said “There is an urgent
need, and we are confident our
passengers agree, for single
plane service connecting many of
the communities we serve with
Jacksonville and Miami. It is for
this reason that we have asked
the CAB to take prompt action
on our application filed in June.
With the arrival of our Boeing
737 jet aircraft next March, we
believe we will be ideally equip
ped to provide the Jacksonville-
Miami service our passengers
have long requested. I hope the
CAB moves rapidly on this par
ticular motion and I know our
friends in the cities we serve
support us.”
The CAB, if the motion to ex
pedite is approved, will order
a hearing to consider the request
for the new route at which time
all interested parties will be
given the opportunity to be
heard.
the more significant advantages
in having an all turbine fleet
would be (1) much improved
reliability, (2) reduced operating
costs, (3) greater passenger ac
ceptance and (4) elimination of
20 year old airframe structures
which result in increasing main
tenance cost.
A program has been developed
to achieve these objectives with
a proposal for the purchase of a
substantial number of the Nihon
YS-11 aircraft.
Thorough Consideration
Piedmont has considered all
potentially suitable turbine-pow
ered aircraft as replacements for
the Martin 404’s, including the
Convair 580 and 600, the FH-227,
the forthcoming pure jet FH-228
and the Nihon YS-11. Several
considerations lead to the selec
tion of the YS-11 aircraft.
One of the principle reasons
the Company is currently operat
ing Martins rather than Convairs
is due to the fact that Convairs
will not operate in to and out
of many of our airports without
severe weight restrictions. Pied
mont has more airports with rel-
CAB Examiner
Recommends PAI
For BNA-MEN
A hearing examiner for the
Civil Aeronautics Board has rec
ommended the selection of Pied
mont Aviation to link Memphis
and Nashville with major cities
in Virginia and the Carolinas.
Examiner Herbert K. Bryan
said Piedmont should serve the
routes without any federal sub
sidy.
He said Piedmont would meet
the needs of about 50 per cent
more passengers than a propo
sal by Southern Airways and
would serve three more Carolina
communities.
Bryan said Piedmont’s plan
would permit a subsidy reduc
tion of about $137,000 while
Southern’s plan would lose
money in the foreseeable future.
“It is concluded that public
convenience and necessity re
quire service as proposed by
Piedmont,” the examiner said.
His decision is subject to re
view by the board.
Piedmont has proposed to op
erate four daily round trips be
tween Memphis and Nashville
on the one hand and Norfolk on
the other with different combina
tions of intermediate stops.
atively short runways, which
cannot be extended because of
terrain considerations, than any
other local service airline. In
addition, the Convairs have a
standard passenger capacity of
52 as compared to 60 in the
YS-11.
Weight Restrictions
The FH-227 would also be
subject to uneconomical weight
restrictions at several airports.
While its cost is practically the
same as the YS-11, the standard
seating capacity of the FH-227
is only 44 passengers.
The FH-228 was eliminated for
detailed consideration at this
time because it will not be avail
able in quantity until 1970 or
1971. Furthermore, the total in
vestment required to purchase
the number of these aircraft to
replace all of the Martins would
be so great as to create a sub
stantial financing burden.
Seating capacity has become
an extremely important con
sideration in aircraft selection,
especially relative t o direct
operating costs. For example, at
Washington National all airlines
are limited in the number of
schedules they are permitted to
operate. Most Piedmont flights
to and from National are pre
sently saturated. Therefore, the
only opportunity for further
growth at National is through
the use of larger aircraft. A simi
lar problem may develop at other
airports. The YS-11 and Boeing
737 will relieve this problem sub
stantially. The other available
aircraft would relieve this pro
blem, but to a lesser degree.
The YS-11 is a very straight
forward orthodox transport air
craft. Tfhere is nothing sensa
tional or revolutionary about it.
It is, in many respects, an en
larged copy of the Convair 440,
but equipped with turbine en
gines and incorporating improve
ments in the state of the art
since the Convair was developed.
The quality of the workmanship
is outstanding and, in fact, equal
or superior to that which the
Company has observed in Ameri
can manufactured transport air
craft. It’s flying characteristics
are excellent.
The only U. S. operator now
using the YS-11 is Hawaiian Air
lines. They report very favorable
results in both operational and
economic aspects. The aircraft
is used extensively in Japan and
is now being delivered to several
South American airlines.
The following chart outlines
the most significant considera
tions in the choice of the YS-11.
Convair
580 & 60(
All Airport Capability
(without uneconomical
weight restrictions) No
Early Delivery Yes
Passenger Capacity 52
New Airframe Structure .... No
FH-227
FH-228
YS-11
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
44
55
60
Yes
Yes
Yes