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July-October, 1977
Interesting interlining
It's "go" season and there ore lots of ploces to try
This column on discount travel injormation is
offered as a service to employees. We compile it from
material sent to the Piedmonitor and the interline
department. Neither Piedmont nor the Piedmonitor can
assume any responsibility for irregularities that muy
occur in connection with offers that are described.
Escapades with Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus is offering roundtrip transporta
tion to Shannon or Dublin from New York or
Chicago on a space-available basis for $89 plus
$3 U. S. transportation tax. There are no
restricted periods for travel, however the Easter
Holidays should be avoided. Airline employees,
spouses and children under 21 are eligible. Chil
dren under 12 travel at 50 per cent, and infants
under two travel at 10 per cent. A letter is
required from your supervisor on company
stationery, including the name and relationship
of all persons traveling. Letter and check for
fare, plus tax, should be mailed to Aer Lingus,
564 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10036,
(212) 575-8400, Ext. 215. Please call (212)
575-8200 within 10 days of departure and list
for meals. Escorted motor coach tours and
rent-a-car packages are available from O’Con
nor Fairways Travel, Inc., 585 West 207 Street,
New York, N. Y. 10034, (212) 569-8300.
Caesar offers variety of short trips
Effective through June 30, 1978, Caesar
Hotels is offering leave-any-day mini-vacations
to Rome, Madrid, London, Paris, Athens, and
the French Riviera. Prices vary from $58 to
$79, double, for four days and three nights.
Included are breakfast daily, half-day sight
seeing tour, dinner, and all hotel taxes and
service charges. For more information write
Caesar Hotels Interline Vacations Department,
7733 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri
63105, (314) 727-1503.
Traffic and Earninigs Improve
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million for the July through September period
of 1977, up 22.4 per cent from the $47.45 million
in the comparable period of 1976.
The Airline Division posted a pre-tax profit
of $3,338,962 for the third quarter of 1977. The
General Aviation Group and other operations
earned $685,519 before taxes. During the same
period of 1976, the Airline Division had a profit
of $3,239,673 before taxes, and the other opera
tions had pre-tax earnings of $178,577.
For the nine months of 1977, Piedmont Avia
tion, Inc. had a net income of $5,684,345 as
compared to $2,951,782 in the same period in
1976.
The Company’s gross revenues for the first
nine months of 1977 were up 17.4 per cent to
$164.6 million from $140.3 million during the
same period of 1976.
Costs and expenses rose 16.4 per cent for
the January through September period of 1977
to $158.6 million. For the same period a year
earlier, costs and expenses totalled $136.3 mil
lion.
In announcing the financial results, Senior
Vice President T. W. Morton said, “Business
growth was better than we expected during
the third quarter and earnings were greater
than our projections in spite of substantial
increases in costs of fuel and other expenses.
It is apparent that earnings in 1977 will exceed
our earnings in 1976.”
Also available through the Caesar organiza
tion are weekend trips to Rome, Santo Domingo,
London, Copenhagen, and Paris. Prices range
from $119 to $162 per person, double. Round-
trip air transportation is included. More in
formation on these is available from the Caesar
address above.
Wander world-wide
World-Wide Interline Tours recently an
nounced new trips including one for eight
days in Greece for $230. They say this is one
of the best tours they’ve ever offered. Cost
covers breakfast and dinner daily, two lunches,
a cruise visiting three Greek islands, tours to
old Corinth, Mycenae, Epidaurus. The air fare
is not included.
Or you might like Morocco for $350. You
get tours to Rabat, Meknes, Fez, Marrakesh
and Casablanca, first-class hotels, breakfast
and dinner daily, and air fare. Parents must
travel with the employee.
World-Wide’s Russia includes a complete
tour of Tallin, Moscow, and Leningrad, features
three meals daily, uses steamer from Helsinki to
Tallin, five hours crossing the Baltic Sea. First-
class hotels and theatre in Moscow and Lenin
grad. Covers overnight sleeper (berth) to
Leningrad/Helsinki. Air fare is included. Com
plete cost is $498 for 10 days.
Pick Portugal for $310 which covers positive
air space, breakfast and dinner daily, plus two
lunches and tours to Sintra, Penn Castle, Royal
Coach Museum, and first-class hotel.
Other World-Wide tours are to Holland,
Spain, Holyland, Paris, and Chateau country.
Tour brochures available from World-Wide
Interline Tours, Inc., P. 0. Box 28034, Atlanta,
Georgia 30328, (404) 255-5669.
Headed down under?
Ten-day fly/drive packages to Australia or
New Zealand, priced from $348 including air
from the West Coast or Honolulu, have been
arranged for interliners by ITR Interline Ltd.
in cooperation with Pan Am. Employees,
spouses and dependent children under 21 are
eligible for the tours, which also include a car
with unlimited mileage and seven nights’ ac
commodation at any TraveLodge or Flag Motor
Last Chapter
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They saw only one contrail. Very uncrowded
sky. A lot of their conversation was about fuel.
They were never sleepy and seemed surprised
at the question. The fuel in the belly had to be
transferred every 15 minutes to keep the wing
tanks as full as possible.
After nine hours, the first land they saw
was the southern coast of Japan. On landing
at Nagoya Wednesday afternoon, they saw YS-
11s everywhere. The ramp roosters felt right
at home. The 227s stirred up quite a bit of
interest. They may have been the first Fair
childs seen there. Someone said the Japanese
mechanics may have been trying to figure out
how to copy the design.
After only one night in Nagoya, they took
off for the last leg of the trip. It was Thursday,
September 8th, when they headed toward
Tainan. The six hours over the East China Sea
reminded Captain McLean of a Winston-to-
Inn.
The Australia tour, which starts from
Sydney, is priced from $348 to $377 per person,
double, depending on the car selected. The cost
for singles is $438 to $473. Rates start at $318
for each of three or four persons. Australia
departures are scheduled daily except Mondays
from Los Angeles or San Francisco, daily except
Tuesdays from Honolulu.
Rates for New Zealand fly/drives, which
begin and end in Auckland, range from $358
to $387 for each of two persons, $328 to $363
for each of three or four. The cost for singles
is $448 to $493. New Zealand departures are
daily except Mondays and Tuesdays from Los
Angeles or San Francisco, Mondays only from
Honolulu. Roundtrip economy air is issued on a
conditional space basis. Longer programs are
also available. Reservations and additional in
formation can be obtained from ITR Interline
Ltd., 39 West 55 Street, New York, New York-
10019, (212) 586-3847.
With its great variety of places to go, ITR
has a three-day Disneyworld package priced at
$48 per person, double. Employees, parents,
families, retirees are eligible for the package
which includes two nights’ accommodation at
the Gateway Inn, two days’ use of a self-drive
car with unlimited mileage, admission to Disney
world and eight of its attractions. An extra
night rate of $16 per person includes the car.
The cost for up to two children under 12 sharing
a room with adults is $8 each. One adult and
one child pay the double rate. The Gateway Inn
on International Drive in Orlando Center is 10
minutes from the airport and close to Disney
world, Stars Hall of Fame, Sea World, Wet
’n’ Wild, and Mystery Fun House. The Kennedy
Space Center, Circus World, Cypress and Busch
Gardens are within an hour’s drive. Reserva
tions and additional information can be obtained
from ITR.
Swap homes
If you are interested in trying a new vaca
tion arrangement by temporarily exchanging
your housing and transportation facilities for
someone else’s in another city, state, or even
country, you may list yourself with Interline
Home Exchange. Complete details can be ob
tained by contacting Interline Home Exchange,
P. 0. Box 26000, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825.
of 227 Story
Wilmington run as they had to beat typhoon
Babe. Thoughts of big sharks in the warm water
also flashed through some minds.
By 8 p.m. that night, the first 227s had been
delivered.
The very next morning, the pilots left
Archer, temporarily, in Tainan as they headed
home via Hong Kong, Tokyo and San Francisco.
Archer stayed long enough to remove the equip
ment that would be used to deliver the last two
planes. The LORAN, the HF receivers and the
fittings for fuel cells and pumps were shipped
back to be installed on N708 and N710.
Several weeks later. Piedmont’s last two
227s headed west to Tainan. Archer and Zavar,
were joined by Ray Parker, Dick Vining and
Dick Morgan for the final trip. Theirs was a
charted journey, but still an exciting aftermath
to the initial adventure in delivering airplanes.
Would any of them want to do it again?
“Yes, but not for awhile.”