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Piedmont President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Howard (secondjrom left) accepts
the PENJERDEL Council Au iation AwardJor 1985from James Riedelfrom Republic
Airlines and chairman oj the Aviation Awards Committee. With Howard and Riedel are
(left) Fred DiBona. Jr.. president of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber oJ Commerce, and
fright) Henry Reichner. Jr.. executive director of the PENJERDEL Council. The award was
presented at a luncheon held in Philadelphia in March.
The council — an association of business, industry and the professions in the
Philadelphia area — recognizes a company or individual each year who has
demonstrated leadership and achieved success in the aviation industry.
Award recipients in recent years have included Edwin I. Colodny, chairman and chief
executive officer of USAin J. Dawson Ransome, chairman and president of Ransome
Airlines: The Honorable J. Lynn Helms, Federal Aviation Administrator. FAA.: Frank N.
Piasecki, president of Piasecki Aircraft Corporation: and Joseph W. Wear, chairman of the
board of Summit Airlines.
Piedmont began service to PHLon March L 198L and now has 15 dailyflights with
nonstop, direct or connecting service to more than 53 destinations.
around Piedmont
This year our Contract Training
Department, located at the T.H.
Davis Training Center in Winston-
Salem, is training the FAA's 737
and F28 inspectors. The contract,
which involves more than 70 stu
dents, will mean over 8460,000 in
revenue for Piedmont. We also have
large contracts with USAir, Sohio of
Alaska, NASA, Orion Air, Summit
Airlines, and Horizon Air. In 1984.
Contract Training brought in
almost $ 1 million in revenue.
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The new terminal at CHS opened
April 10. We have two exclusive
gates with loading bridges and
more space for passenger services
in our new facilities. The formal
dedication was held March 30.
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DAY boarded 106,045 passengers
in March, the first time over
100,000 passengers have been
boarded in a single month at our
mid-west hub.
On May 14 Piedmont will move to
complete new facilities at CLE. We
will take over the space formerly
occupied by Wright Airlines. Our
move will put us on Concourse B
and we will have a loading bridge at
Gate 19A with expansion available
at Gate 19. The new facilities will
give us, for the first time, the ability
to have full personnel for passenger
services and operations.
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There may be more expansion at
CLT soon. Construction on a new
$25 million terminal, which will be
known as Concourse A, will add
eight gates for five airlines — Delta,
Ozark, American, United, and
USAir. The concourse, which will be
located on the other side of East
ern’s concourse, is scheduled for
spring 1986. The expansion will
provide Piedmont with additional
facilities on our concourse. We now
have 17 gates at CLT We recently
negotiated with Delta on a package
deal which included Gate 4.
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Our operations area at EWR has
been modified, and new desks for
operations and passenger services
have been installed.
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Site preparation for the mainte
nance facility addition at GSO is
complete, and this month the
steelwork is going up for the struc
ture. The building will open by
October 31.
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New ticket counters have been
installed at ILM and renovation of
the holdroom is complete.
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At RDU we have added a fourth
loading bridge. The ticket counter
area has also been expanded from
eight to 12 positions.
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Piedmont will have 14 employees
at STL when we start service May 1.
Delta is handling our operations
and cargo.
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The new station manager at TYS
is Sy Pierce, former operations
manager at BNA and station man
ager at TYS at the time we discon
tinued service there in 1982. We
will have 13 people at this station
when we reinstate service on May 1.
United will handle our operations
and cargo.
Piedmont people
Jamie Brewer, a reservations
agent at BNA, has earned the TOPs
(Total Outstanding Passenger Ser
vices) Award for helping a military
passenger who missed his connect
ing flight with another airline at
DFW.
The young man had no credit
cards, no checks, and less than $5
in cash. It was after midnight, and
the Piedmont counter was closed,
so he called our reservations office
for help. Brewer tried to work some
thing out with the connecting air
line, but they refused to help the
passenger and told her he would
have to spend the night in the ter
minal. So Brewer contacted a hotel
at the DFW Airport and gave them
her credit card number and her
billing address so this passenger
would have a place to spend the
night
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Howard Mackinnon, senior vice
president-finance, has been named
to the Finance Council of the Air
Transport Association. The council,
through its committees and panels,
is responsible for the coordination
of industry activities in the areas of
accounting policies and problems,
taxation by all levels of government,
administration of pension and
other employee benefit issues, in
surance and audit activities, and
other industry financial matters,
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ATL Station Manager Jeannie
Dial raised $720 for the Leukemia
Society of Georgia as one of 30
waiters and waitresses at the Celeb
rity Waiters’ Luncheon. She came
in second place as the grand tip col
lector behind retired Delta Captain
Perry Hudson who added substan
tially to his tip total by auctioning
the right to smash his face with a
cream pie.
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Jean Heath, who has been with
Piedmont for six years, has been
named outstanding employee for
January February at GAG’s Win-
ston-Salem offices. Heath is a sales
secretary in the Beech Aircraft
Sales Department, and was chosen
because of her excellent attitude,
commitment to Piedmont, and her
ability to work well with others.
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Piedmont Aviation filed a
registration statement with the
Securities and Exchange
Commission on April 4 for 1.3
million additional shares of its
common stock to be offered to the
public. Concurrently, an additional
325,000 shares will be sold to the
Norfolk and Western Railway
Company, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Norfolk Southern
Corporation.
NW now owns 17.8 percent of
Piedmont’s outstanding shares
and will own approximately the
same percentage following the
company’s purchase of additional
shares concurrently with the
public offering.
Proceeds from the public offering
and the sale of additional shares
will be used to facilitate the
purchase of ciircraft and related
equipment, and the acquisition,
upgrading and expansion of
various other operating facilities.
On April 4, Piedmont Aviation,
Inc., had outstanding 14,951,507
shares of Common Stock.
Traffic Stats
March*
passengers boarded 1,510,235 -t-25.5%
revenue passenger miles (RPMs) 694,332,739 +31.7%
available seat miles (ASMs) 1,155,022,348 +25.3%
load factor** 60.11% +2.88 points
"'new loadfactor recordfor month of March
First tJiree months*
passengers boarded 3,799,739 +20.2%
revenue passenger miles (RPMs) 1,736,240,083 +25.6%
available seat miles (ASMs) 3,313,848,510 +24.2%
load factor 52.39% +0.58 points
'new recordsfor a single month andfor thefirst quarter in passengers. RPMs,
and ASMs. Figures include Henson Airlines.
Cargo Stats
(ton miles)
March
U.S. Mail
1,61 1,327
- 1.0%
Air Freight
1,744,758
+ 19.1%
Air Express
71,015
+41.6%
TOTAL
3,427,100
+ 9.0%
First three months
U.S. Mail
4,363,954
- 5.1%
Air Freight
4,822,382
+20.6%
Air Express
173,013
+25.8%
TOTAL
9,359,349
+ 7.1%