Brock
McGuire
Murchison
Phillips
Washington
Brock named senior v,p.-marketing;
four others awarded promotions
TWo Piedmont officers have been elected to
new positions and three employees, named
officers of the company by the Piedmont Avi
ation. Inc., Board of Directors at its quarterly
meeting on September 23.
Dan Brock, who joined the company in
1983 as director-agency and interline sales
and most recently was vice president-
marketing. has been named senior vice
president-marketing. Prior to joining Pied
mont, Brock was staff vice president of mar
keting systems at Air Florida. He had also
served as director of agency and interline
marketing at Texas International and as
director of agency sales at Braniff
Brock holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from
American University in Washington. D.C. He
is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce.
In his new position Brock oversees all func
tions of Piedmont's marketing, scheduling,
pricing, sales, advertising, and commuter
programs.
Alice Washington has been elected corpo
rate secretary and David Murchison, vice
president and assistant general counsel, for
Piedmont. Both are attorneys in Piedmont's
Legal Department.
Washington received her juris doctor de
gree in 1984 from the University of North
Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. She
was admitted to practice before the North
Carolina State Bar in 1984. A graduate of
Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State
University, Washington earned a bachelor of
science degree and graduated with honors in
1978. She joined Piedmont in 1984 as an at
torney. As corporate secretary, she is respon
sible for general corporate legal matters for
the company. She is also secretary for all the
company's subsidiaries.
Washington is a member of the American
Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar As
sociation, and the Honor Society of Phi
Kappa Phi, and as secretary of the Forsyth
County, NC, Employee Benefits Council.
Murchison was elected vice president and
assistant general counsel. He joined Pied
mont in 1985 as assistant general counsel
and assistant secretary. Prior to joining Pied
mont. he was assistant vice president-law
and secretary of the Air TYansport Associa
tion. From 1975 to 1977. he served as legal
assistant to the vice chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
Murchison earned a bachelor of arts degree
from Princeton University with honors in
1970 and a doctor of jurisprudence degree
from Georgetown University Law Center in
1975. He was an editor of the Georgetown
Law Journal. He is a member of the Ameri
can Bar Association and the District ol
Columbia Bar Association.
Don McGuire, a 21-year veteran of the air
line industry, has been named vice president-
public affairs.
Prior to joining Piedmont in 1980 as stall
vice president-public affairs, McGviire was
director of government affairs for Eastern
Airlines and director of state and community
affairs for National Airlines (now part of Pan
Am). In addition, he has 10 years of experi
ence as a reporter and editor for various
newspapers.
McGuire attended the University of Arkan
sas, Louisiana State University, and the Uni
versity of Miami in Florida.
Ted Phillips has been promoted to staff
vice president-scheduling, for Piedmont.
Phillips joined Piedmont in 1972 as an
agent at RDU. He transferred to the Airline
Scheduling Department at the company's
headquarters in Winston-Salem in 1978 as a
staff assistant and was promoted to manager-
schedule planning a year later. In 1983, Phil
lips was named director-schedule planning.
Phillips has a degree in business adminis
tration from the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro.
on November 15
number of departures: 1,338
miles llown daily: 481,746
ASMs: 56,603,337
number of aircraft in fleet: 179
average aircraft hop: 360.0 miles
number of airports served: 93
daily block time llown: 1,599 hours
37 minutes
next schedule change: December 8
ranic
September
First Nine Months
1,952,335
881.3 million
1.6 billion
54,88%
8.9%
-I-13.5%
+ 8.7%
up 2.33 pts.
18.761.548
8.4 billion
13.9 billion
60.57%
+ 12.5%
-h 11.9%
-H 8.5%
up 1.86 pts.
passengers
revenue passenger miles
available seat miles
load factor
Piedmont set new records for the month of September in passengers. RPMs. and ASMs. and both CMH and
BHM both set new boarding records for September.
Our six reservations centers answered 2.779.038 calls in September, up 5.2 percent over September 1986.
U.S. Mail
Air Freight
Air Express
TOTAL
September
2.272,259 + 51.6%
4.283,216 -t-110.1%
53,071 -I- 34.6%
6,608,546 -I- 84.7%
First Nine Months
18,499,751 -1-25.8%
26,619,829 -1-66.0%
512,051 -t-16.2%
45,631,631 -h46.3%
Piedmont carried the most airfreight, and total Ion miles in September than during any month in the
Company's history. New records were set in all categories for the month of September. For the first nine
months. Piedmont carried more ton miles than during the 12 months of 1986.
arouna
Piedmont
Our licet, as of November 15, will include a total ol 179
aircraft, including three 767-200s, 34 727-200s, 35 737-
300s, 62 737-200S, 25 F28-4000s, and 20 F28-1000s.
The last 737-300 lor this year is scheduled to arrive on
December 3. A fourt h 767-200 is tentat iv'ely scheduled to
arrive on December 22.
On November 15. we will serve 93 airports (120 cities)
in 29 states plus the District of Columbia, two Canadian
provinces, Uindon, and Nassau. On December 8, service
will begin to Phoenix and San Diego.
« « *
Piedmont will have a total of 350 daily departures at
CLT on the November 15 schedule. Piedmont Airlines
will offer 240 llights. CCAir, 90, and I lenson, 20. We will
provide 32.171 seals daily in this market.
* * *
Piedmont's renovated DC-3 was named outstanding
transport aircraft of its type at the Ex|)crimental Aircralt
Association Show in Oshkosh. Wl, in August. The 1942
Douglas DC-3 represents Piedmont at various marketing
and promotional events throughout the year.
♦ * ♦
Construction of the 1 lO.OOO-square-foot olfice build
ing and parking deck adjacent to INTRO is right on
schedule. The building—which will house about 1,000
employees in international, rates, customer service,
queues, frequent llyer, licket-by-mail, groups and tours,
schedule changes, executive accounts, and the CHC
departments—will be ready lor occupancy in early
January.
♦ ♦ *
NASCAR driver Kyle Petty's new twin engine Beech-
craft Baron 58 is easy to spot. The tail carries the per
sonal number N500KP for NASCAR 500 Kyle Petty Petty
is Ihe fifth Winston Cup NASCAR driver in the past year
to buy an aircraft from Danny Culler. Piedmont Beech-
eraft salesman. Culler has also sold aircraft lo Darrell
Waltrip. Bill Elliott, Terry Labonte, and Dick Brooks.
♦ * ♦
Marriott Hotels and Resorts, witli over 170 locations
worldwide, has become a partner in our Frequent Flyer
Bonus Program, effective October 1. Stoulfer Hotels, 7'he
Radisson Hotels, and the Omni Hotels are also partners
in our program. In addition, frequent flyers now receive
1,000 miles credit for all stays at these hotels.
* *
' Innerspace" and "No Way Out" are the featured films
scheduled to show on our 767-200 llights in November.
In addition, on the Ix>ndon llights two short films,
‘'M*A*S*H" and “Burns and Allen." will be shown.
* * *
Ken Carlson, Ibrmer manager-public relations, re
ceived a silver award in competition sponsored by the
North Carolina chapter of the International Association
of Business Communicators Ibr the story "Maintenance
puts 2 B737s in our stocking" which appeared in the
December 1986 Piedmonitor. A silver award was
also presented Piedmont for the map of Piedmont's loca
tions in the Winston-Salcm/Greensboro/High Point
area which appeared in the July 1986 issue of the
Piedmonitor.
* * *
A team of Piedmont employees challenged teams rep
resenting 23 other area companies in a recent member
ship drive for Ihe Greater Winston-Salem Chamber of
Commerce, and Piedmont came out on lop.
The Piedmont team, made up of 10 Winston-Salem
area employees, was responsible for recruiting 37 of the
218 new members brought in during Ihe cam|)aign. The
new recruits represent a total of $54,032 in annual mem
bership dues of which $10,445 was raised by Piedmont.
Piedmont team members included Bob Joiner, district
sales manager, who served as chairman: Aprel Hawley,
sales representative: Marilyn Hoppe, director-rcvenue
enhancement: Donna Stirewalt, charter and convention
specialist; Darren Brucham, senior analyst-revenue en
hancement: Frances Pollock, analyst-revenue enhance
ment: Jane Garrison, ana!yst-pa,ssenger procedures;
Ann Brook Wade, INTRO: Terry Ehrlick, manager-
government and military sales; and Kerry Eggleston,
manager-cargo sales.
Ji
October 1987 • Piedmonitor