CHARLESTON
Ruth Miller
CHW has been quite busy with the many
rainy days through the month and the Kana
wha Airport has been crowded with passen
gers.
During the month, a Station Meeting was
held and all employees enjoyed quite a
"bull" session which lasted almost until
midnight. The new Sales Training Program
is beginning and we're all quite confident
that much will be accomplished.
Denver Fisher, with PAI about 2-1/2 years,
has resigned,to work in the Planning Dept,
of Kaiser Aluminum, Ravenswood, W.Va .
Don Garrett began his training with the
CAA February 18, starting observation at
the Greater Pittsburgh Airport.
Mr. Cash celebrated another birthday with
a big cake inscribed "Happy Birthday Boss."
We all gained a pound or two from the
goodness of the cake. He says this was the
last one, but we hope he has many more.
Enjoyed a visit from Bill McGee, here for
the West Virginia Legislature Meeting on
the Gasoline Tax Bill.
The CHW manager of American Airlines,
Joe Burns, is leaving for a job in Sales for
AAL in CLE, and the new Manager will
be from Joplin, Mo.
CHW finally has storage lockers in the
Lobby for the passenger's service.No more
leaving the bags behind the counter and
having to jump over them like an obstacle
course. Most of us counteragents are well
trained for high jumping.
After the spring snows, we hope you al I plan
a visit to CHW.
LYNCHBURG
Martha Brown
Hoskins Almond is leaving on the 28th to
join the ranks of the Postal Service - he
will be a walking postman. We will miss
him, but hope he will be happy in his new
work.
Henry Minnick is on sickleave.He will be
out most of the month of March - had a
minor operation and is doing fine.
One of our chronic late passengers showed
up for an early morning flight to find the
ticket agent in front of the office yelling
for him to run I As the passenger ran through
the office the agent opened the other door
leading to the ramp and handed him his
ticket, - calling after him, "I should kiss
you good-by, as Blondie does Dogwood!"
Another late passenger, whom we all ex
pected to blow his top because he hod
missed the I imo pickup-went through the
door praising Piedmont. Seems as though
he has never had such good service from
any other line - all we did was hold the
flight! ! i ! Funny thing was, he felt itwas
all for him,and there were three passengers
in the cab!
NORFOLK
Ed Best, from LYH, paid us a little visit
and it was nice seeing Ed again. Oh ,
Bill Crowe that is. Sales Representative
from CVG, was also down our way and it
was nice seeing him.
The Norfolk Aviation Club had a dance
March 2 in the Azalea Room of the Munici
pal Airport. Avery enjoyable time was
had by all.
United Airlines' gain, our loss, as Joan
Pascarosa, Reservationist, is leaving PAI
to be a hostess for United. We are going to
miss her but w i s h her lots of luck with
United Airlines.
at Southern Pines.
If there are any suggestions towards ideas
for getting more passengers to fly, please
let us hear from you I
TRI- CITIES
Don Shanks
News is scarce around here this month but
had this I ittle incident to happen the other
day which goes to show that a passenger
will go to any extreme and sometime risk
his life to catch a flight.
Flight 52 arrived per schedule and after
a rough few minutes we accompi ished an all
most impossible feat of digging our cargo
and bags off the bottom and soon there -
after, headed to the terminal leaving the
nose stand and front cargo door open .
Evidently, at about this time thepurserde-
cided to close the passenger door account
of cool weather present at that time .As we
proceeded to the terminal with our carts we
heard a shril I whistle and loud yell ing be
hind ourbacks and turned to see a passenger
gal loping across the ramp at about 20 knots
(and he had a head wind) and before we
could stop him he had graceful ly cl imbed to
the top of the nose stand,got down on his
knees and crawled up into the front cargo
bins. Upon further investigation it was re
vealed that thepassengerthought the flight
was ready to leave and, as he so put it,
"By golly, you're not going to leave me."
Oh well,what would we do without them?
Agent Larry Redden, recently tookhisArmy Training classes are beginning this month
physical. He does not expect to get h is and everyone isexpecting toenjoy os well
Greetings from Uncle Sam until after April, as profit from these classes which will give
us training in reservations and the art of
selling those badly needed empty seats we
SOUTHERN PINES sometimes have left over.
Thanks to the agent on duty at SOP for be
ing alert and awake when Mr.Dcrvisvisited
us last month. Both the agent and Mr.
Davis had an interesting talk concerning
the news about our order for F-27s.
Casey had a partial ly good trip to CVG-
Station Manager's Meeting. Most of the
managers seemed to have met in the I NT
terminal Coffee Shop, thanks to the weather.
The othervisitor toSOPwos the Honorable
E. G. Cooke from IMN. He sure gained
weight while he was temporarily stationed
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WASHINGTON
K. H. Fishel
Flight Attendant Jim Lockamy has been
hospitalized this month. Hope he will be
back with us real soon.
Jean Lash who is in NYC attending train
ing school for TWA left us in February.
We wish her lots of success in her new job.
Iona Carr has been transferred toROA and
we already miss her zany antics.