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VOL. IX, NO. 10
THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL — ALL OVER PIEDMONTLAND
DECEMBER, 1967
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New route extends Piedmont's system to the Mississippi River.
Government Discount
Travel Fares Are
Inagurated Bv PAI
Piedmont has announced the
inauguration of Discount Gov
ernment Travel fares which
were effective November 12th.
The new Discount Government
Travel fares have been estab
lished by the Company on a
level competitive with propeller
and jet coach fares offered by
other airlines in 85 marltets
served by Piedmont.
The new Discount Govern
ment Travel fares have been
established in those marlcets
where propeller coach and/or
jet coach service is offered.
Heretofore, Piedmont has of
fered only first class propeller
(A Class), or standard class jet
(S Class).
Various studies have shown
that the average business travel
er is not affected by the various
priced fares. However, this has
not been the case for persons
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Application Is Filed For Chicago
Piedmont Airlines has filed an
application with the Civil Aero
nautics Board requesting au
thority prjViu^ o£i V lO
Chicago, 111., from the Virginias
and Carolinas.
In addition, the Company
filed a motion requesting the
CAB to issue an order to inter
ested parties to show cause why
Piedmont’s application should
not be granted, or alternatively,
to set down the application for
an expedited hearing.
350 Mile Extension
Piedmont’s application and mo
tion proposes a 350 mile route
extension direct to Chicago
from Ashland-Huntington, mak
ing possible single-plane service
from its ten state system.
If approved. Piedmont would
provide direct single-plane serv
ice linking many Important
cities on its system with Chica
go for the first time, and pro
vide additional convenient serv
ice from Piedmont cities.
The application indicates that
Kyle Is Appointed
Assistont Director - Flight Operations
Captain W. C. Kyle has been
»amed Assistant Director —
light Operations for Piedmont
Airlines.
A native of Bellevue, Ken
tucky, Captain Kyle joined the
Company as a First Officer in
1949. He had been a Flight
Officer in the Air Corps, a pro
duction test pilot, a flight in
structor, a charter pilot and a
control tower operator prior to
joining Piedmont.
Kyle made Captain in 1952 and
became Chief Pilot — Winston-
Salem in 1965.
He is married to the former
Marilyn Jane Klappert of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have
one daughter.
Kyle is a Life Member of the
American Rifle Association and
belongs to the Masonic Order.
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W. C. Kyle
23 cities now served by Pied
mont would directly benefit
from new single-plane round-trip
plication is approved. Cities
which would receive this new
direct single-plane service in
clude Ashland, Huntington,
Charleston, Tri Cities, Roanoke,
Greenville - Spartanburg, W i n-
ston-Salem, Richmond, Raleigh-
Durham, Fayetteville, Newport
News, Norfolk, New Bern and
Wilmington.
Answers Requests
Piedmont’s proposal answers
many requests by various cities
for one-plane service to Chicago.
A significant benefit is that
thousands of passengers would
be relieved of the necessity cur
rently confronting them of mak
ing two or more airline connec
tions in their journeys to reach
Chicago and the Northwest.
In filing the application, the
Company forecasts that the pro
posed service would serve 162,-
300 passengers in 1968, includ
ing nearly 70,000 in markets that
now have no single-plane service
to Chicago. In addition, the Chi
cago service would generate an
operating profit in the first year
of operation and permit a sub
stantial reduction in subsidy.
Brown Comments
Vice President C. Gordon
Brown, Jr., commenting on the
application, said that, “The
many letters and requests from
our passengers and friends, sub
stantiate the urgent need for
single-plane Piedmont service
connecting many of the com
munities we serve with Chicago.
It is because of this definite
need that we have filed
with the CAB our application
requesting this authority. With
the coming of our new Boeing
737-200 jet Pacemakers in the
spring of 1968, we believe we
will be ideally equipped to pro
vide the single-plane Chicago
service our customers have long
reciuested. It is our hope that
the CAB will move rapidly on
this matter and I know our
many friends in the cities we
now serve and hope to serve in
the future support us.”
The Civil Aeronautics Board has announced final approval
of Piedmont’s application to extend service to Nashville and
Memphis, Tennessee. The Board’s action, effective immediately,
provides for the extension of the Company’s 7,000 mile route
system into Western Tennessee.
The date of inaugural service
to Nashville, the capital of
Tennessee, and Memphis has
been tentatively set for Febru
ary 1, 1968. The exact routes
and schedules will be announced
in the near future.
Company Is Pleased
In regard to this action by the
CAB, President Davis said, “We
are elated to learn of the Board’s
action. We have been seeking
this route extension for many
years. In addition, travelers and
shippers in many communities
in North and South Carolina
and Virginia have long sought
improved service to Nashville
and Memphis. Piedmont esti
mates this route extension will
provide service to 110,000 addi
tional passengers in the first
year and result in almost $4 mil
lion additional passengers, and
freight revenue to the company
annually. This area, between
Memphis and Nashville and the
many cities on Piedmont’s sys
tem, has long been isolated from
pleased to bridge the gap and
to provide air travel to this new
gateway.
Multiple Effort
The civic and aviation leaders
in Tennessee have worked dili
gently for this service and are
most deserving of their success
ful efforts.”
Service will initially be pro
vided by FH-227B and Martin
404 Pacemakers with a gradual
change over to the recently pur
chased Boeing 737 jets and
Nihon YS-11 prop jets in the fall
of 1968. With Nashville and
Memphis added to Piedmont’s
system, the Pacemakers will be
serving 77 cities in a ten-state
area plus the District of Colum
bia, for a total of 9000 certified
route miles.
Tariff Publishers
Have Elected
Board Members
The Airline Tariff Publishers
has elected Piedmont Vice Presi
dent C. Gordon Brown, Jr., to
its Board of Directors.
Others elected at the group’s
annual meeting in mid-Novem-
ber include William M. Crilly of
Eastern Air Lines and W. Gor
don Wood of Air Canada.
Airline Tariff Publishers is
the tariff publishing agent for
the 43 U. S. and Canadian sched
uled certificated airlines.
F. Wilson
Wilson Named
Manager for FLO
Robert F. Wilson, Jr. has been
named Station Manager for
Florence. He was formerly a
Chief Agent at Beckley.
Wilson joined Piedmont as an
agent at Beckley in 1952. He was
promoted to Chief Agent in 1955.
He attended the University of
Arkansas and completed his
military service in 1945 with the
U. S. Army.
A member of the Black
Knight Chamber of Commerce
and the Elks Club, Wilson as
sumed his duties at Florence the
latter part of November.
CLOSING IN for winter work on Piedmont's new home office and
hangar facilities, the roof is nearly finished. Construction is right on
schedule.