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Piedmont sales manager: David
Burkhaller. Charlotte city
manager: Herb Spaugh.
Charlotte city councilman: Josh
Birmingham. Charlotte airport
ntanager: and Wayne Tucker.
Redmont station manager
New, expanded service begins IVIarcIn 1
One hundred and eight
passengers left Charlotte on the
Inaugural flight to Orlando.
January 7. The twice-daily
flights — the first nonstop air
service between the two cities —
also connect with Baltimore and
Charleston. WV. Pictured at the
ribbon-cutting ceremony in
Philadelphia will be added to
Piedmont’s system beginning
March 1, and service will be ex
panded at 12 other stations across
Piedmont’s system the same day.
Piedmont’s beginning service at
Philadelphia will include four de
partures daily, including two non
stop, round-trips to Richmond, and
one nonstop round-trip each to
Greensboro and Roanoke.
In addition to the nonstop flights,
there will be one-stop services to
both Charlotte and Roanoke.
Piedmont service at Charlotte is
expanding March 1 to include five
additional daily departures bringing
Piedmont’s total flights there to 44
per day. These additional flights are
double the 22 dally departures
Piedmont offered Charlotte on
March 1, 1980.
New nonstop flights to Charles
ton, WV, Knoxville, Myrde Beach,
Pittsburgh and Richmond are in
cluded in Charlotte’s new schedule.
Piedmont will offer three addi
tional daily departures from
Greensboro, bringing the number
to 28, up 10 from March 1980. New
nonstop services from Greensboro
will be available to Chicago, Phila
delphia, and Washington, D.C.
Newark and Cincinnati will also
assume roles of expanded impor
tance on Piedmont’s system with
the March 1 schedule change. Pied-
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mont will add additional nonstop
service from Newark to Boston and
Newark to Cincinnati which will
increase the number of departures
to 15 per day, up from 8 in March,
1980.
The schedule change gives Pied
mont three dally nonstops between
Boston and Newark, four nonstops
returning from Newark, and twice
daily nonstop, round-trip flights
between Newark and Cincinnati.
At Cincinnati, the second dally
nonstop flight to Newark will raise
Piedmont’s dally departures to 10,
up from five in March a year
earlier.
The schedule change also gives
Cincinnati travelers additional di
rect service to Charlotte and Bos
ton, and a third dally nonstop flight
to Louisville.
Here are highlights of other serv
ice improvements across Pied
mont’s system March 1;
Boston — an additional Newark
nonstop flight will fill a morning
departure gap, and bring total
round-trip, nonstop services in this
market to three. The flight will also
provide additional through-plane
service to Cincinnati and Louisville.
Chicago — Piedmont is adding a
mid-moming nonstop flight to
Charleston, WV. The flight will con
tinue to Roanoke.
Charleston, WV — A one-stop
flight to Charlotte will be added,
with an intermediate stop at Roa
noke. By assigning larger aircraft to
Charleston flights. Piedmont has
lifted capacity to 1,706 seats daily,
up from 1,508 in 1980.
Louisville — Direct service to
Newark, Boston, and Lynchburg
will be added, along with two-stop
service to Philadelphia, and a one-
stop flight to Richmond.
Pittsburgh — Nonstop service will
be added to Charlotte and onestop
round-trip service to Raleigh/Dur
ham. The flight will continue to
provide one-stop service. Other
equipment routings will give Pitts
burgh one-stop service to DCA In
sum. Piedmont’s daily departures at
Pittsburgh will rise to four, up from
two in 1980.
Raleigh-Durham — New non
stop flights will be added to both
Charlotte and Newark. The morn
ing nonstop to Charlotte will give
capital area travelers access to 10
destinations beyond Charlotte in
our early morning complex of
flights there. The midday nonstop
to Newark gives Piedmont custom
ers a balanced choice of depar
tures in this important market.
Piedmont’s total capacity at Ra-
leigh-Durham will be slightly
higher, 1,695 seats daily versus
1,672 in 1980, despite two fewer
daily departures.
Roanoke — In addition to non
stop and one-stop services to Phfl-
adelphia, Roanoke will gain a di
rect, one-stop flight to Chicago
departing at 11:28 a.m. daily.
Tri-Cities — Piedmont is adding
a new mid-morning direct service
to LaGuardia Airport in New York
City. The flight will depart at 10:30
a.m. daily, arriving at LaGuardia
at 12.34 p.m.
industry update
Airline passengers of the 21st
Century may be able to travel
halfway around the world in about
four hours, speeding above 3,000
m.p.h. in an airliner that needs no
petroleum fuel. On shorter flights,
passengers of tomorrow could find
themselves seated on planes carry
ing 1500 persons. Airplanes may
have no landing gear to save
weight, taking off from man-made
water basins or from powered
cradles. Such possibilities for air
travel in the next century were
outlined by Edgar M. Cortright,
president of Lockheed-California
Company, at a recent conference.
The nation’s scheduled trunk
and local-service airlines posted
the lowest number of fatal acci
dents and deaths in modem avia
tion history in 1980. The only
fatal accident occurred last June
near Valley, Nebraska, when a
twin-turboprop operated by Air
Wisconsin, lost power in both
engines while flying in a severe
thunderstorm. Thirteen persons
died in the crash. The previous
low was 17 deaths in 1933. 1980
was the first full calendar year
with no fatal crash of a large
passenger jet, a record set despite
an airline taking off in this coun
try an average of one every six
seconds.
On January 7 at 10 a.m., non
stop scheduled passenger service
between China and the United
States was restored, after a 32-
year hiatus, when a Boeing 747
with 139 Chinese passengers on
board pulled up to a dock at San
Francisco International Airport.
Pan American World Airways be
gan flights to China January 28.
China Airlines, Taiwan's flag
carrier, made its first Taipei-New
York freighter flight in January, a
few hours before the People’s Re
public of China’s first passenger
flight.
Kennedy Internationa], LaGuar
dia and Newark International now
have regularly scheduled helicop
ter service connecting the airports
and the 34th Street Heliport
alongside the East River in New
York. New York Helicopter hopes
the new service will carry 400,000
passengers annually within five
years.
A record $1 billion was set by
inflight catering companies and
wholesalers supplying food and
drink served on airline flights
originating from United States
airports in 1980. The higher sales,
up five percent over 1979, were
made despite a record five percent
slump in passenger traffic on U.S.
airlines, and despite stagnating
passenger traffic on international
flights of airlines belonging to the
International Air Transport Asso
ciation (L^TA).
FeDruory 1981
volume 32, numDer 1
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News .ibom i'l
published for and about Piedmont people
by the Public Affairs Department,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Rosalind D. Chostner, editor Cherryl Shamel. associate editor