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VOL. IX, NO. 2
THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL — ALL OVER PIEDMONTLAND
FEBRUARY, 1967
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IT MUST HAVE BEEN FUN — President Davis, Stewardess Cynthia Hans-
brough and Vice President Brown were all smiles as they posed beside
the PAI emblem on the first Boeing 737 just prior to its roll-out last
month.
Boeing Ceremonies
The Day of the 737 Roll-Out
The Boeing 737 made a bubbly
bow when it was rolled out in
Seattle last month. Seventeen
stewardesses representing their
respective purchasing airlines
christened the “baby” of the Boe
ing family with 17 bottles of
champagne.
Piedmont’s representatives for
the festivities were President
Davis, Vice President Brown and
stewardess Cynthia Hansbrough
who actually flailed the new
plane’s wing with a bottle of
champagne.
Thirty Airlines
Other visiting executives made
up the group of more than 130
officials of some 30 airlines at
tending the ceremonies. The visi
tors had a day long tour of Boe
ing operations in the Seattle
area, before hearing Boeing Pres
ident WilUam M. Allen say that
the attention lavished on the
SST and 747 jumbo jet “in no
way should be construed as de
tracting from the importance of
the 737 in filling its particular
segment of the airline require
ment.”
“The 737,” said Allen, “prom
ises to be more efficient than
any other jet in its class. It in
herits the best features of its
predecessors, the 707, the 720
and the 727.
The over-all traffic growth (in
air transportation) that is in
prospect in the years ahead,
which gives rise to the larger
airplanes, will be developed in
no small part by the speed, con
venience, comfort and economy
of service on the shorter hauls
that will get people into the air
from many points of origin.
Allen underlined that the 737
would be a major objective of
Boeing’s business planning for
the long-term future.
Potential For Profit
The firm’s president also ex
pressed to his air-line listeners
confidence in the plane’s poten
tial as a moneymaker for its
operators.
The 737 has the same wide
fuselage body (12 feet 4 inches)
as its bigger brothers, making
it the only short-range jet cap
able of six-abreast seating.
Piedmont has ordered six of
the 737’s, the first of which is
scheduled for delivery in March,
1968, and has an option for six
more of the planes. (For further
photos of the christening, see
page five.)
Application
Is Filed For
BNA-SDF Route
The Pre-Hearing Conference
on the Western Tennessee Case
involving Piedmont Airlines’ ex
tension to Nashville and Mem
phis, Tenn. was held March 1st.
During the proceedings a hear
ing date was set for May 23, 1967.
On February 24th Piedmont ap
plied for a new route between
Nashville and Louisville via
Bowling Green, Kentucky. Addi
tionally, the Company filed for
consolidation of this application
in the Ozark Re-Alignment Case.
A similar application for BNA-
SDF service has been filed by
Lake Central Airlines.
New Credit Cord
Agreements Are
Effective April 1
Piedmont Airlines will begin
accepting American Express,
Carte Blanche and Diners Club
credit cards for interline ticket
ing of passenger’s air transporta
tion as well as excess baggage
charges on April 1st.
The Company will also accept
United Airlines Personal Credit
Cards for travel over the routes
of Piedmont and United jointly,
also beginning April 1.
Instructions pertaining to the
acceptance of the cards will be
sent to all stations as soon as
possible.
CAB OK's Greenville-Spartanburg Route
The Civil Aeronautics Board
has announced its approval of
Piedmont Airlines’ application to
provide service to Greenville-
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Piedmont filed its application
for the service on August 23,
1962. In May, 1966 the examiner’s
hearing was held. The decision
by the Board, in effect, made
final the examiner’s findings
which approved the certification
of Piedmont, deleted the present
ly suspended service of Delta
Airlines to the area and denied
the application by Southern Air
ways to provide additional serv
ice to Greenville-Spartanburg.
Effective Immediately
The order by the CAB was ef
fective upon issuance.
In commenting on the Board’s
action. President T. H. Davis
said “Piedmont is pleased by the
CAB’s approval of our applica
tion for this service. The Green-
ville-Spartanburg area is a rapid
ly growing and important indus
trial area of the Southeast. We
welcome the addition of these
fine communities to our route
structure and we look forward
to serving travelers from that
section of South Carolina.”
Inaugural Date
Service is scheduled to begin
on April 1st, with pre-inaugural
ceremonies to be held the day
before. The employee schedules
already out indicate that Green-
ville-Spartanburg will be served
initially with six Piedmont
flights per day. Major points to
be served by the Pacemakers
from, the Greenville area are Cin
cinnati, Ohio, Norfolk, Virginia,
Knoxville and Tri-Cities (Kings
port/Bristol/Johnson City), Ten
nessee, Raleigh-Durhami, Greens
boro/High Point/Winston-Salem
and Charlotte, North Carolina.
There will be approximately
seven persons comprising Pied
mont’s initial staff at the Green-
ville-Spartanburg jetport. Count
er space has been negotiated and
Piedmont’s personnel will be just
to the right of the Southern Air
ways ticket counter directly in
side the front door.
Braggadocio
From the State
Columbia, S. C.
A bit of humor in business or
civic promotion is always re
freshing.
Piedmont Airlines has been
running an ad which proclaims;
“Piedmont Puts New York on
the Map.”
It of course meant the map of
cities served by the airline,
which now has routes to the Big
Town.
That ad reminds us of the map
Col. Elliott White Springs once
distributed for his short-haul
railroad between Lancaster and
Chester. It showed all of the rail
roads in America. Said its cap
tion: “Lancaster and Chester
Railroad and (in small letters)
Connecting Lines.”
And there is a little town of
about 3,000 up in Canada named
Biggar. On its city limits is this
sign; “New York Is Big, but This
Is Biggar.”
The moral; If you must brag,
do it with a smile.
GSP Personnel Appointed
Staff selection has been com
pleted for the opening of Pied
mont’s newest station in Green
ville-Spartanburg, S. C.
New Bern’s chief agent Tom
Finney has been promoted to
Station Manager for GSP and
former Beckley agent Bob Har
per was promoted to chief agent.
Both men will transfer to Green
ville by mid-March to begin pre
paring for the April 1 inaugural
of service.
Station Manager
Finney, who joined Piedmont
in 1957 as an agent at Newport
News, is a native of Elkin, N. C.
He is a graduate of the public
schools there and he attended
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He worked in a
number of Piedmont’s stations
across the system, including
Richmond, Washington-National
and Raleigh-Durham before
being promoted and transferred
to New Bern as chief agent in
1964.
Mrs. Finney is the former
Clara Lenderman of Wilkesboro,
N. C. The Finneys will be in
Greenville after March 13th.
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Bob Harper will assume the
chief agent’s duties at GSP ap
proximately two weeks before
the inaugural of service. Harper,
a native of Beckley, W. Va.,
joined Piedmont as an agent at
Bluefield in 1955. The following
year he transferred to Lexington
and in 1958 he moved to Beckley.
Chief Agent
Harper is a member of the
Loyal Order of Moose and an ac
tive worker with Little League
Baseball teams in Beckley. He is
a graduate of the public schools
there and he attended Central
Technical Institute in Kansas
City.
The former Goldie Turner of
Harper, W. Va. is Mrs. Harper.
With their three children, the
Harpers will move to Greenville
next month.
Other agents moving to Green
ville are Joel Bruce from CLT,
Schuyler Day from London-Cor-
bin, R. E. Williams from TRI
and E. O. Carr from DCA. A
former Delta Airlines agent,
Richard L. Ayers, from Atlanta,
will join the six-man group to
comprise the initial staff for
Greenville-Spartanburg.
BOB HARPER
Chief Agent — GSP
TOM FINNEY
Station Manager — GSP
Lockamy Assigned RDU Territory
James P. Lockamy has been
promoted to sales representative
for the Raleigh-Durham area of
North Carolina. He replaces
R. R. Mohler who resigned.
Prior to his appointment to
this position, which was effective
March 1, Lockamy was sales rep
resentative for Piedmont in
Washington, D. C. While there
he worked with DCA District
Sales Manager O. E. “Bud”
Halsey.
A native of Roseboro, N. C.,
Lockamy joined Piedmont in
1956 as a flight attendant based
in Washington, D. C., where he
remained until 1959 when he
joined the United States Army.
In 1961 Lockamy returned to
Piedmont as a flight attendant
based in Roanoke, Va.
Prior to his appointment in
1966 as sales representative for
Washington, Lockamy was em
ployed by the Charlotte Division
of the Kellogg Company.
The son of Mrs. M. T. Lock
amy of Roseboro, Lockamy grad
uated from the public schools
there. While in Washington he
was a member of the Airline
Traffic Association and the
JIM LOCKAMY
Sales Rep — RDU
Washington Board of Trade.
Besides Raleigh-Durham, other
Piedmont communities which
will be in Lockamy’s sales area
are Fayetteville/Fort Bragg, Kin
ston, Goldsboro, and New IBern/
Jacksonville/Camp Lejeune/
Beaufort/Morehead City.