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October 1981 volume 32, number 5 News about Piedmont. The Up And-Comin^ Airline. Stretch Boeings off to perfect Piedmor^t start Piedmont's first two 727-200 air craft have proved to be durable workhorses and popular with both passengers and crews. After 330 flight departures, the two aircraft had yet to experience their first flight delay in Piedmont colors, a perfect mechanical flight dispatch performance. Thefirst 727-200 entered scheduled service on September 9. With less than a full month's per- formance in September, the tLuo aircraft transported more than 20.000 Piedmont passengers dur ing the remainder of the month. Performance of the aircraft has won rave reviews from the flight deck and cabin crews. "Pilots are very pleased by per formance of the 727-200." accord ing to Gene Sharp, staff vice presi dent-Flight Operations. Leonard Martin, staff vice presi dent-lnjlight Services, echoes the praise. “Flight attendants have two Remember when... ... Piedmont’s timetable was a one-fold document which included fares?... A ticket from Wilmington to Charlotte cost just S12.50 plus 15 percent tax?... SYTOP (Start your trip on Piedmont) was the air line’s slogan?... All flight attend ants were male? More than 600 people at the annual Service Awards Banquet held September 29 in Winston- Salem remembered when as they reminisced about Piedmont's "good ol’ days" and talked excitedly about the Company’s future. Jim and Phyllis Hanson (left) and Farrell and Betty James glance at the display of old photos from the Company’s archives, fianson is a retired captain from Norfolk. James, a captain stationed in Winston-Salem, celebrates 15 years with Piedmont this year. For more photos turn to page 5. serving carts, which is an improvement despite tne exua seats. They havefound the aircraft to be a good stable flight for ser vice. and the 200's signify growth and competitive equipment to our people." Marlin said. Piedmont's third 727-200 ar rived in Winston-Salem on sched ule and will join the fleet the last of October September traffic grows 43%; the 'unusual' now ordinary Piedmont may well remember 1981 as the year that exceptional traffic figures became ordinary traffic figures. September is normally a "shoulder" month for Piedmont. Traffic falls well below the yearly average. But not in 1981. For the sixth consecutive month. Piedmont boarded more than 600,000 pas sengers. The feat is all the more peculiar since, until April of 1981, Piedmont had never boarded as many as 600,000 passengers in a single month. The 605,837 passengers boarded in September represented a 33.6 percent increase over the 453.539 passengers carried a year earlier. In terms of revenue passenger miles. Piedmont’s September traffic grew 43 percent year-over-year to 267.5 million. And two stations set new board ing records in this normally off- peak month. Thanks to new non stop services between Cincinnati and Houston, both stations boarded more passengers than ever before in a single month. September’s load factor of 56 percent was the third time in its history Piedmont has achieved 56 percent or more load factor for that month. Load factor for September of 1980 was 48.9 percent. For the first nine months of 1981, Piedmont has registered gains in eveiy category. Passengers grew 24.4 percent to 5.3 million. Revenue passenger miles grew 34.6 percent to 2.36 billion. Available seat miles grew 20.3 percent to 4.06 billion. Load factor rose 6.16 points to 57.96 percent. Piedmont has now registered year over-year traffic growth lor 57 consecutive months. on the inside • Piedmont burns the midnight oil in preparation for the con troller’s strike. Page 3 for details. • A story with a little punch. Palate pleasers, page 6. • Piedmont chosen to test new safety device. Page 8. • Lobsters, clams, corn-on-t he- cob — all in abundance at Boston’s first annual Pied mont Clambake. Page 9 for story. • Announcing Carelines new catalog with 27different items. Choices, page 10.
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