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August 1982 volume 33, number 4 News about Piedmont. The Up-And'Comin^ Airline. Dayton celebrates Piedmont's arrival July 1 at Dayton's Cox Field looked like an early celebration of the Fourth of July. There were may ors (from Dayton and Lansing) and congressmen from both parties. And there were 16 new flights daily by Piedmont Airlines. As each of the morning arrivals pulled up to the new Piedmont facilities, precisely on time — all of them — the excitement grew. Reporters and TV cameras moved from gate to gate to greet dignitar ies, sharing space with Daytonians coming to get their first Piedmont experience. Just after 8 a.m. on the ramp, Piedmont President Bill Howard handed a bottle of champagne to Liz McEwen, wife of young Con gressman Bob McEwen, and Mrs. McEwen broke the bottle on the nose of the Wright Brothers Pace maker. christening the plane and. a little unexpectedly, herself. Mayor Paul Leonard of Dayton greeted the assembled guests short ly after flights had departed for Boston. Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, and Washington, D.C., as over 100 dignitaries gathered for a breakfast on the Piedmont concourse. Among them were Dayton Con- (Km mLMm m iT mmm w m \ Representatives from television and radio slatiorjs and newspapers In Dayton turned out July 1 to intervieiv President Bill Howard about our new midwest sennce. gressman Tony Hall and his mother, widow of a long-time former Dayton mayor; Mayor Terry McKane of Lansing: airport authority mem bers from all five cities: and proba bly as many reporters and TV crews as ever witnessed a Piedmont event. Tom Heine, president of the Day ton Area Chamber of Commerce, formally welcomed Piedmont to Dayton. And, as suddenly as that. Piedmont had culminated plans begun about two years ago. Dayton ^ J "'mi GSO Customer Service Supervisor Ron Beeson (left), who Is also facilities coordinator for the new lermlncd. and Station Manager Lyle Cox stand on the south side of the new terminal. The concourse, visible at far right, will house seven Piedmont gales. New GSO Terminal triples our size When GSO’s new $50 million terminal — the largest single con- stn.iction enterprise ever under taken in Guilford County — opens October 10, Piedmont's facilities will more than triple. The airline will expand from a single gate with ground level board ing at the old terminal to seven gates, all with second level loading bridges at the new facility. There will be 65 feet of ticket counter compared with the present 35 feet, and space for operations will in crease by over 300 percent. "Piedmont will share the South Concourse with United and Delta," said Bruce Parrish, director-station facilities. "Our gates will be nearest the main terminal and easily accessible from our counter and the entrance to the airport. We'll also have a President's Suite located on our concourse." The two-level, two-concourse structure contains more than 237,000 square feet, approximately four times the size of the existing terminal. Solar collectors have been placed atop the short-term parking lot canopy and will provide up to 30 percent of the energy required for operation of the terminal. The official opening of the termi nal will be preceded by a black tie gala the night of October 8 featur ing a variety of bands such as Duke Ellington, Fat Ammons (beach music), and the Olympia Brass Band (New Orleans jazz). The next morning, a dedication ceremony will be held followed by an open house for the public during the afternoon. was now a new hub on Piedmont's system. So much for a splashy beginning. Wliat has become of Piedmont in Dayton during our first month of operation? "It's been a rousing success by any standard," Dick James, staff vice president-planning, said. "We're now exceeding our goals. By the end of the first month, the en tire hub was operating at a load fac tor projected for the first full year, and all indications are that we ob viously will exceed all goals." James indicated that such a performance means that the Dayton hub was already adding to Piedmont's profitability. Sheri Folger, vice president- marketing, said he was not at all surprised. "When our field sales people made their ‘blitz' of the area, the re sponse was so wonderfully enthu siastic we knew it would be a winner. These people were abso lutely starved for good service, they knew about Piedmont before we got there, and were delighted to have us continued page 3 6-month earnings Down; 2nd quarter Profit best ever Net income for the second quar ter of 1982 reached S14,663,000, the highest earnings for any quar terly period in the Company's his tory. The comparable earnings for the same period in 1981 were $11,625,000. Net income for the first six months of 1982 was $8,844,000, compared to $13,069,000 for the first half of 1981. "While Piedmont had the best earnings of any quarter in its histo ry for the three months ended June 30," said President Bill Howard, “earnings are 32 percent lower for the first half of 1982 than for the same period a year ago because of a loss reported in the first quarter." Operating revenues for the sec ond quarter were S168,440,000, a gain of 17 percent from the $ 144,047.000 recorded in the same period in 1981. Revenues for the first six months were $305,375,000, also up 17 percent from the $260,338,000 recorded in the first half of 1981. continued page 6
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