Frestel named to new
USAir post
Around the Group
John P. Frestel, Jr., has been named to
the newly- created position of senior
vice president-human resources for
USAir, effective January 24.
Frestel comes to USAir after 21
years with Santa Fe Railways where he
served as vice president-personnel and
labor relations.
At USAir, he will be responsible for
employee services and labor relations,
and will serve on USAir’s Executive
Committee. Reporting to Frestel is
William Haberkorn, vice president-
employee services, and Ronald
Butschle, vice president-labor rela
tions.
Frestel is a graduate of Marquette
University, and received a J.D. from
Georgetown University and an MBA
from the University of Chicago. -A
Kephart promoted to vice
president
Thomas G. Kephart, has been pro
moted to vice president-operations
services for USAir, effective December
23.
A 18-year employee of USAir,
Kephart has served in several manage
rial positions in the customer services
and operations divisions including
manager-system control center, and
director-operations administration.
In addition, Kephart was elected an
officer in 1982 and most recently
served as assistant vice president-flight
attendant services.
His educational background and
experience includes meteorology and
business administration, and he holds
an FAA Airman Aircraft Dispatcher
Rating certificate.
Kephart’s offices are now located at
USAir’s Park Ridge Two facilities in
Pittsburgh.
New company newspaper
With this issue, the company newspaper has taken on a new look. Distributed to
USAir Group employees, it contains company and employee-related news as it per
tains to all USAir Group subsidiaries, and about merger-related developments.
At the time of operational merger, the two separate but very similar editions—
USAirNews and Piedmonitor—^will join under one flag, USAirNews.
With this issue, USAirNews/Piedmonitor also has a new editor. Bill Kress,
formerly public relations representative with Piedmont, has joined USAir’s cor
porate communications department at DCA as
editor USAirNews/Piedmonitor.
Kress joined Piedmont in 1987 and assisted in
the media relations and internal communications
at the INT public affairs office. Prior to joining
Piedmont, Kress was with Southern Air Transport
in Miami as administrator of corporate communi
cations, and served as editor of South Florida
Aviation News before that.
A native of Rochester, NY, he holds a degree in
English/Journalism from the State University of
New York College at New Paltz.
Fleet status
On January 1, the Piedmont fleet will total 198 aircraft, which reflects the delivery
of one additional B737-400 during the month of December for a total of nine of
that aircraft type. Piedmont currently operates 62 B737-200s, 42 B737-300s, she
B767-200S, 34 B727-200s, 20 F28-1000s, and 25 F28-4000s.
USAir currently operates a total of 226 aircraft. TTiis reflects the delivery of one
additional B737-300 during the month of December. USAir operates 23 B737-200s,
56 B737-300S, 10 B727-200s, 74 DG9-30s, 31 DC-9-80s, 11 BAC 1-1 Is, and 21
BAel46s.
Piedmont serves 96 airports in 29 states, plus the District of Columbia, Ottawa,
Montreal, London, and Nassau. USAir serves 105 airports in 36 states, plus the
District of Columbia, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto.
Piedmont department moved
All responsibilities of Piedmont’s facilities department will be transferred to DCA
effective January 1,1989. Piedmont’s properties department will remain in INT
until March 1,1989, when all responsibilities of that department will be trans
ferred to USAir headquarters in DCA.
Group market share
USAir Group subsidiaries USAir and Piedmont together captured 8.7 percent of
the majors’ traffic in November, surpassing TWA for the second time this year as
the nation’s sixth largest airline company based on revenue passenger miles
flown. A top objective. Chairman and President Edwin I. Colodny told New York
analysts, is steady development of a major domestic airline on par with United,
American, and Delta.
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