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April 1983 volume 34, number 2 News about Piedmont. The Up-And-Coming Airline. PiEomanr J. j. PIEDMONT The opening of the BWI hub is Just three months away, and BWI's stajf is gearing up for the July 15 startup. Bob Bennington (foreground) is BWI's new station manager. With him are (I to r) Dave Sauopoulos, Deb bie Clark, Eric Pedersen, Linda Pauley, Dennis Shea, Bob Rogers. Tommy Rodgers, Charles Turner, and Frank Fuller. For more on BWI, turn to page 3. PI Games go on June 4 Who can run thefastest Jump the highest and best pound a volleyball over the net? Reservations, the overall winner at the Piedmont Games in 1982, is boasting, “They Can't Beat Me in '83."So is the GO womens volley ball team which has taken home gold two years in a row. The ROA stations team experienced the sweet taste of victory in men's vol leyball last year and will be out to defend its championship. Competitors will take their places at the starting line on Sat urday, June 4, at Wake Forest University for thefourth annual Piedmont Games. The Piedmont Games Commit tee is up and running in prepara- tionfor this year’s contest Emma Trotman and Betty Westmoreland (rightforeground) are chairing the committee. Both work at CRO. Other members and their areas of responsibility are: (seated, I to r) Donna Poulas (CRO). officiating: and Bill Lee (Charters & Conven tion Sales),food and entertain ment (standing) Jimmy Speas (CRO), transportation and hotel accomodations: Bill Simmons (Training), communications; and Al Lundy (Maintenance), awards. In addition. John Ferry (Market ing), will coordinate the games. Piedmont steps up pace At LaGuardia and Newark On April 24, Piedmont Airlines will take a bigger bite out of the Big Apple’s air travel market. After New Yorkers set their clocks ahead on Saturday night, they’ll arise to find a veiy different Pied mont Airlines waiting for Ihem. That’s the day Piedmont begins handling its own operations at LaGuardia Airport after a 16-year wait, and advances its daily La Guardia departures to 22, up from its present 15. At the same time, Newark will go to 25 daily departures, up from 24. Instead of contracting operations to other carriers, Piedmont will have its own force of 97 employees at LaGuardia to handle the llights, along with 12 maintenance per sonnel. At Newark, Piedmont has 140 station personnel, and 16 maintenance employees. Between the sales offices in Manhattan and Newark, Piedmont has another six employees, or a total of 271. At the two airports combined, Piedmont will be offering the Met ropolitan New York market 47 daily flights with 5,732 daily seats. On a monthly basis, Piedmont will have 171,960 seats out of the two New York airports. Leonard Martin, vice president- passenger services, said that Pied mont employees are anxious to move into the l^aGuardia space. "Most of the new employees al this station will be Piedmont per sonnel moving into New York from existing stations," Martin said. "1 think they’re anxious to show New Yorkers the good service that has attracted so many customers to us since deregulation in other markets." If LaGuardia parallels Piedmont’s success at Newark, it will be no small achievement. In March, New ark became one of the system’s few 50,000 passenger boarding sta tions in a single month when the Newark staff enplaned 53,811 pas sengers, a record. Bill McGee, senior vice president- marketing, said the strategy is simply a continuation of what Piedmont has been doing since de regulation, not a new focus on the giant air travel markets. "New York, or the New York area, tends to be the Number One desti nation for most of our air travel markets," McGee said. “If we’re to be a full-service carrier, particular insofar as destinations are con cerned, we need to give our com muni ties good access to New York, and do it through both airports." ^ m
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