around
the industry
Comair, a Delta regional which began serving Florida
on November 1, added daily round-trip service between
Orlando and Tkllahassee, Gainesville, and Lakeland on
December 15, and on February 1, began service between
Orlando and Key West and Fort Lauderdale and Key
West. The carrier also serves Naples, Daytona Beach,
Melbourne, Fort Pierce/St. Lucie, and Freeport, Grand
Bahama.
* ♦ ♦
Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport now ranks as
the busiest airport in the world in terms of aircraft opera
tions. ATL had a total of 796,944 aircraft operations in
1987, 5,037 more than Chicago’s O'Hare. ORD is still
number one in terms of passengers boarded.
* * *
Eastern has introduced a one-bag policy for carry-on
items. The other majors have a two-bag policy under
the FAA's new baggage rule which became effective
January 1.
♦ * *
President Ronald Reagan signed legislation on Decem
ber 30 which authorizes $20.2 billion for aviation pro
grams and improvements.
* * *
American has applied with the DOT for authority to
provide nonstop service between Raleigh/Durham and
Paris Orly Airport. If approved, the service is scheduled
to begin May 26 using 767-200ER aircraft. The airline in
troduced 767-200 service from RDU to both MCO and
EWR on February 17, RDU's first widebody service.
* ♦ ♦
Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, has promised to pay cash
compensation to passengers delayed because of over
bookings, erroneous information about flight times and
routings, and unjustifiable delays in check-in.
* ♦ *
Following are 1987 traffic figures for 12 carriers:
airline
RPMs
ASMs
passengers
load
(billions)
(billions)
(millions)
factor
American
56.1
87.5
54.0
64.1%
Continental
39.1
63.1
61.9%
Delta
46.4
82.8
56.3
56.0%
Eastern
36.1
56.1
44.6
64.4%
Northwest
39.5
61.4
64.4%
PSA
4.6
8.1
11.2
56.3%
Pan Am
26.0
41.5
62.8%
Piedmont
11.5
19.0
25.4
60.5%
Southwest
6.7
11.5
12.3
58.9%
TWA
32.9
51.8
24.6
63.4%
United
66.3
101.3
55.0
65.4%
USAir
13.1
20.0
24.8
65.3%
Together, Piedmont,
USAir, and PSA carried 61
.3 mil-
2
lion passengers in 1987, more than Delta, United, or
American.
* * *
U.S. scheduled airline passenger traffic, including do
mestic and international operations, increased 10.9 per
cent in 1987, the Air Transport Association reported.
Domestic passenger traffic rose 7.9 percent and avail
able seat miles, 6.2 percent in 1987. The load factor was
61.8 percent compared to 60.8 percent in 1986. Interna
tional passenger traffic for 1987 gained 24.6 percent;
available seat miles were up 11.6 percent; sind the load
factor rose 6.9 points.
4c * ♦
Russell Ray, former PSA president, has joined Douglas
Aircraft as vice president-customer support.
* 4:
The first of a new generation of airport surveillance ra
dars (ASR-9) was delivered to the Huntsville, AL, airport
in December. According to Secretary of Transportation
Jim Burnley, the ASR-9 represents a significant advance
over current airport radars which must suppress
weather data to prevent interference with the display of
traffic information. The FAA has 101 ASR-9s on order
from Westinghouse Defense and Electronics Center un
der a $400 million contract awarded in the fall of 1983.
The first unit will undergo extensive field testing at
Huntsville before it is commissioned for operational use
in May. Additional deliveries are being made early this
year to FAA facilities in Oklahoma City, Atlantic City,
Newburgh (NY), Salt Lake City, Pamco (WA), and Moses
Lake (WA).
♦ * *
Boeing orders totaled 366 in 1987 compared to 341 a
year earlier, and deliveries rose from 242 in 1986 to 270
last year. The value of the 1987 orders increased from
$19 billion to a record $19.9 billion.
m
A limited edition print of a painting of
Queen Elizabeth II is now on display in
Concourse C’s Presidential Suite at CLT
thanks to the generosity of artist Joseph
Wallace King. King (second from left), who
was commissioned by the Wellcome Foun
dation Ltd., London, England, to do the
Queen’s portrait, gave the 36 x 40-inch
print to Piedmont in honor of our new
London service.
~ t'
With King, a Winston-Salem resident,
are (1 to r) T.H. Davis, Piedmont’s founder.
Bill McGee, president and chief executive
officer; and Leonard Martin, senior vice
president-passenger services.
The original painting is on display at
the North Carolina Museum of Art in Ra
leigh, NC.
Folger retires with 40 years
Sheri Folger, who joined Piedmont as a sta
tion agent 40 years ago and became one of
the company’s top marketing executives, re
tired February 1.
A native of Lexington, KY, Folger joined
Piedmont as an agent in Lexington in 1948,
the year the airline started. He was promoted
to chief agent and then station manager in
Lexington before transferring into the mar
keting department in 1955 as city sales man
ager for Washington, DC.
Folger became
district sales man
ager in 1957 and, in
1961, moved to head
quarters as assis
tant general sales
manager. A number
of promotions fol
lowed, including
vice president-
marketing in 1982.
When Piedmont
NTSB vice chairman
named to USAir post
Patricia A. Goldman, former vice chairman
of the National Transportation Safety Board,
has joined USAir as senior vice president-
corporate communications. Goldman is
responsible for the corporate communications
effort, including public relations, government
and community affairs, and internal pro
grams. She also serves as a member of the
airline’s senior management executive com
mittee. In addition, Goldman is vice president-
corporate communications for USAir Group,
Inc., USAir's parent company which also
owns PSA and Piedmont.
Prior to joining the NTSB in 1979, Goldman
was executive director of The Wednesday
Group which developed and managed legis
lative and political issues for 30 Republican
members of the U.S. House of Representa
tives. She has also been associated with the
League of Cities and Conference of Mayors as
a lobbyist and issue manager; the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce as director of man
power poverty programs; and with the House
Education and Labor Committee as minority
counsel for the Subcommittee on the War on
Poverty. She was a fellow of the Kennedy In
stitute of Politics in 1977.
developed a network of Piedmont Commuter
carriers, Folger accepted the challenge and
was assigned his current title of vice
president-commuter and interline develop
ment, in 1984.
Folger has worked for many years on differ
ent committees of the Air Transport Associa
tion’s Air Traffic Conference. His specialties
were the TTavel Agency Committee and Mili
tary Traffic Committee, and he helped draft
many of the original resolutions that have
guided the airline industry’s procedures for
travel agencies and military travel. He has
also been a member of the Interline Sales
Manager Conference since 1963.
Folger graduated from the University of
Kentucky and served with the US Navy as an
aviation cadet.
on March 1
number of departures: 1,376
miles flown daily: 505,343
ASMs: 60,566,392
number of aircraft in fleet: 185
average aircraft hop: 367.3 miles
daily block time flown: 1,677 hours
12 minutes
next schedule change: April 3
Ft
TOGETHER,WFLL
SOAR TO NEW HEIGHTS.
Piedmonitor • February 1988