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The Up-And-Coming Airline 5 Above: Bill McGee, senior vice president- marketing. tells Tbmpa niedia about our new services to begin there October 1. Right: Cordon Bethune. senior vice president- operations, gives details about our new service to Key West media. At right is Ivette Hightower. MIA sales representative. Left: Lionel Anders (right), staff vice president- sales. and Bill Grubbs. JAX sales mcmager. ex plain new services planned for JAX. Below: Dick James, staff vice president- corporate plan ning. tells area media about our plans for Thllahassee on October I. Piedmonts Intra Roflda Jet ServKe. lALLAHASlE WLTOI continued from page I Our new Florida service Ft. Lauderdale or the five Florida destinations at whieh we'll begin service October 1. FLL has the largest facilities. A new terminal just opened here August 2. and our Facilities Dcpartnicnt has already acquired ticket counter and back office areas. We will share a loading bridge and gates with other carriers. Dan Brock, vice presideiil- niarketing, told area media that we will begin service at FLL wilh tliree departures. "Piedmont will offer nonstop, round-trip service to Jacksonville three times daily," Brock said. Jim McCormick has been named station manager for FLL where we will initially employ 16 agents. McCormick, who has been with Pied mont since 1955, has most recently been station manager at PIT. Naples At Naples (APF). Piedmont will have 25 employees. Rodney Bowers, former station manager at LAN and a 30-year veteran with the company, is station manager. Howard Mackinnon. senior vice president-finance and treasurer, ex plained our new services to a large group on hand for the press confer ence August 1. "We will operate the only Jet flights out of Naples when we begin service here October 1,” Mackinnon said. "Piedmont will initially oiler the area six daily, nonstop llights, three to 'ampa and three to Miami, with connecting service to Key West." At APF, we will have full ticket counter facilities wilh six positions. Boarding will be done on the ground level, and the holdroom will be off of our ticket counter area. Like Key West, our Facilities Department is having a full security system installed at this airport. Tkllahassee Dick James, staff vice president- corporate planning, explained our new intrastate services to a large audience at Ikllahassee, the state capital. "Piedmont will begin service to Tkllahassee on October I with four flights daily," James said. "We will provide nonstop, round- trip service to Miami three times a day and to Gainesville, once each day." Ron Beeson is station manager at TLH where Piedmont will employ 17 agents. Beeson joined Piedmont in 1965 and was most recently station manager at ALB. At TLH, we will have four ticket positions and a back office support area. Our holdroom will be shared and boarding will be at ground level. Gainesville Sheri Folger, vice president- commuter and interline development, represented Piedmont at Gainesville on August 1. “We will offer four flights daily on the October 1 schedule,” he told a large crowd that gathered for the press conference, "Our new service will include three daily nonstop, round-trip flights be tween Gainesville and Miami and one between Gainesville and Tallahassee.” Chuck Huffman, former customer service manager at BWI, is station manager tor GNV. He joined Pied mont in 1969. We will have 17 em ployees at this station on October I. At GNV Piedmont will have four ticket positions wilh back office support area and a shared holdroom and gate. Boarding will be on the groimd level. pricing "Just as our scheduling philosophy is simple and direct, our pricing policy will be equally simple and direct." Howard explained. "We will have two fare levels: imrestrictcd lares and discount lares. Unrestricted fares will ap()ly to all scats, all nights, at any time. Discount tares will be available with certain restrictions." For example, we will limit the nimi- ber of scats we will sell at a discount and these scats will be available on all llights operating between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. as well as ail day Saturdays and Sundays. Or. discotml fares can be obtained on any tlight providing the reservations are made seven days in advance, and the trip involves a Saturday night stayover. Senior citizens and military person nel can travel on the discount lare level at any time. "We recognize that this is a novel approach to Florida's intrastate air services," Howard said. "We believe that our record of growth since this industry was deregulated, and the fact that this ex pansion program is consistent with everything Piedmont has successfully imdertaken during those years, are indicators that it will be a highly successl'ul venture for Piedmont and Florida." Florida offers Opportunities For PI People When a major expansion takes place, many opportunities for advancement become available. Here Is a list of sta tion managers in new locations; Wayne TLicker, regional direetor- stations, INT Watson Furr, station manager. CLl' Rodney Bowers, station manager, APF Rick Wagoner, station manager, l^AN Jim McCormick, station manager, FLL Scott Saunders, station manager, PIT Ron Beeson, station manager, TI>H Steve Hardegree, station manager, ALB Richard Reel, station manager. EYW Ctiuek Huffman, station manager, GNV Dave Coughenour, station manager, PHL Harold Wilson, station manager, TOL Van Berekman, station manager, OAJ Our sales force will also grow this fall. We will open a new sales office in Talla hassee and expand our present offices at TPA. JAX, and MIA. Kathy Presley will be the new flight attendant base manager at MIA. Response to our announcements about our new intrastate Florida network has been exceptional. Following are excerpts from a letter received in late July: In recent years I've been living in Key West and longing for the luxury of a Key West-Miami shuttle in the expert hands of Piedmont... I welcome you to Key West with open arms and packed baggage (I already have reservations to fly Miami- Richmond on October 1st and look forward to making it "at my doorstep" service when local reservations for the shuttle are available August 1st.) I'm sure to be using your airline fre quently and will be encouraging others to do so as well. Welcome to Key West!
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