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Mechanics Rick Orel lana (left) and Tferry Pomichter work in Uti ca’s newly-renovated sheet metal shop. Special ceremony marks opening of renovated Utica faciiity Several Piedmont, chamber and county olTicials, and members of the media were on hand at Utica-Rome on August 10 to official ly dedicate the newly renovated $6.8 million reservations and maintenance facility there. The hangar building at UCA, formerly the corporate headquarters and primary mainte nance base for Empire Airlines which merged with Piedmont in 1986, will have nearly 600 employees working there by year end. "The facility is truly a showplace and an enviable place in which to work in this up state New York community ol about 125,000 people, ’ Ibm Schick, senior vice president- operations, said during the dedication. “Our 190 maintenance employees as well as some 340 reservations personnel are very proud of their new working quarters and with good reason." All office space in maintenance, stores, and engineering on the second floor and part of the first fioor (hangar level) has been com pletely renovated and new furniture has been purchased throughout. The UCA mainte nance base performs all heavy maintenance on Piedmont's 45 F28 jets. Three aircrafi overnight here daily on a rotating basis. The maintenance base operates 24 hours a day throughout the year. Don Shanks, vice president-customer rela tions, pointed out that in reservations, new terminals, terminal controllers, data stations, personal computers and printers, an auto mated call distributing system, and other miscellaneovis additions have been installed for a total cost to Piedmont of $1.8 million. Oneida County contributed $5 million to the project. The UCA reservations center handled 1.082,897 calls from the Northeast from May 1, 1986. the dale on which Piedmont merged operations with Empire, through December 13, 1986 and is expected to an swer 4.4 million calls this year. Right: Reservations agents Kelly Butler (left) and Bill Burdick are among the 340 reserva tions personnel at Utica. Below: Tbm Mousaw, lead stores clerk at Utica, checks for a part from a stock bin. 1 arouna Piedmont On the October 10 schedule. Piedmont will ha\'ca total of 177 aircraft: three 767-200s, 34 727-200s. 33 737- 300s. 62 737-200S. 25 F2«-4000s, and 20 F28-1000s. Three more 737-300s arc scheduled for delivery this year, arriving October 30. November 12, and December 3. A fourth 767-200 is tentatively scheduled lo arrive December 22. The number of airports Piedmont serves will increase to 92 (119 cities) in 29 states plus the District of Colum bia, two Canadian provinces, and D)ndon on October 10 when Indianapolis joins our system. On November 15, service will begin between Nassau (NAS) and both CLT and BWI. On the October schedule. Henson. The Piedmont Regional Airline, will serve 38 airpoi ls (53 cities) in 10 stales plus the District of Columbia and five Bahama destinations. Several schedule changes are planned on the Oetober 10 schedule by the three carriers in (he Piedmont Com muter System. CCAir will discontinue service to JAX and CHS and add service lo CRW. The comnuiter will serve 20 airports (29 cities). Jetstream will add Uifayeltc, IN, lo its route system, increasing the number ol airports served to 26 (35 cities). Brockway will serve 23 destina tions (26 cities) when it discontinues service lo Niagara Falls in October. * * 4- It has been six months since Piedmont and NCNB first invited Piedmont's frequent fiyers to apjily for a joinlly- issued Visa card, and I he response has been very good, according to David Howard, manager-frcciuent traveler marketing. "The new card offers Piedmont frequent llyers the o|)- portunity to earn one mile of credit in their Irequenl llycr account for every dollar of goods or services purchased using the card," Howard explained. "Employees can apply for a Piedmont/NCNB Visa card by enrolling in Piedmont s frequent Oyer program." he said. "An application for the Visa card will be included with the frequent llyer membership kit, which employ ees will receive within a week after enroUing." Employees do not receivc mileage credit for any type ol industry discount or non-revenue travel. They also un dergo normal credit check procedures as would any other credit card applicant. NCNB makes the final deci sion of whether or not lo issue a Visa card. * * * Piedmont is a sponsor of the VANTAGE Championship, a seniors PGA event lo be held at 1’anglewood Park near Winston-Salem September 30-0clober 4. The lourna- menl offers a $1 million purse, (he richest on the lour, and will bring in 72 players, including golf celcbrilies such as Arnold Palmer. Gary Player. Gene Liltler, Julius Boros, Orville Moody, and Chi Chi Rodriguez. The tournament will begin with a Iwo-day pro am dur ing which guests play with the professional golfers. A super seniors pro am for players over 60 years ol age will be held Octobcr 1 as well as a women’s pro am will) guests and players from the LPGA. The regular tourna ment will run from October 2-4. Tickets are $12 a day. For advance tickets, call 919/766-3494, or liekels may also be purchased at the gate. * * * Jim Swartz, director-ground safely, has been elected to serve on the Norih Carolina Department of I>abor's In dustry Advisory Board, (he first representative from Piedmont to serve in this capacity since 'I'.l I. Davis. Pied mont's founder, served in a similar capacity from 1966- 68 on the N.C. Council on Occupational Health. The board includes 13 members from industries such as f-^.J. Reynolds Tobacco. FielderesI-Cannon, Vulcan Materials, and Duke Power Company. The board, which is limited lo persons employed in North Carolina, advises the N.C. Commissioner of l^bor on various matters relat ing to safety, occupational health, federal-stale regula tory issues, and any other areas requested by the Commissioner. "I think my appointment speaks highly ol the quality of our safety program and (he fine job Piedmont does im plementing it," Swartz said. "It will give us the opportu nity to add another dimension to the proactive, positive approach we take towards employee safety in our human resources department." September 1987 • Piedmonitor
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