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Long updates progress The process of consolidating USAir and Piedmont into one combined com pany by Spring 1989 has created enor mous challenges for just about every department. One sure way of measuring the prog ress of the integration as a whole is to check the pulse of the administration department. The tasks facing adminis tration cut across several departmental lines. In November, John Long, USAir se nior vice president-administration, updated members of the USAir Man agement Club on the myriad merger preparation activities being done by the various departments that comprise the administrative function. Among them: • Management Information Services (MIS) is developing a mainframe com puter architecture capable of support ing the PACER reservations system for the merged company. This architec ture requires the linking of three sepa rate computers as there is no single unit capable today of meeting our needs. MIS is also working on 135 other projects to consolidate various applica tions systems for user departments. • Employee Relations is developing procedures and policies to serve a workforce that will total more than 45,000 following the merger. Issues being addressed include seniority lists, relocation services, and standardiza tion of personnel policies. • Material Services is planning pro grams to support a post-merger fleet of more than 400 jet aircraft and the need to buy more than one billion gal lons of jet fuel in 1989. In addition, USAir uniforms will be provided to an estimated 16,000 Piedmont employees by the purchasing department. • Properties and Facilities is exam ining USAir and Piedmont facilities at 135 mainline cities, including 67 com mon points, to determine how best to combine airport facilities like counters, gates, etc. • The offices of USAir’s headquar ters, presently located in Hangars 11 and 12 at Washington, DC, will be moved into a new 11-story office build ing across from the airport in Crystal City starting in January. Some of the departments scheduled to occupy floors three through eight, and half of the second floor, include the chair man's office, corporate communica tions. legal, finance, marketing, commuter activities, properties and fa cilities, security, MIS. and employee re lations. In addition, an employee cafeteria, reception area, credit union, city ticket office, and various other support functions will be located on the building’s first floor. USAir will oc cupy a total of 284,000 square feet in the building. • Pittsburgh also will require more office space upon operational merger, and USAir has increased its commit ment to a total of 100,000 square feet at Parkridge TWo, an industrial park lo cated about two miles from the airport. Operations functions, customer ser vices and MIS currently occupy 66,000 square feet there. Negotiations are in progress for space in an additional building near Parkridge TWo. Current plans call for baggage services, the print shop, mate rial services, purchasing, fuel ad ministration and possibly more MIS functions to occupy 58,000 square feet there (mixed office and warehouse space). In addition, the recently acquired Carnot School facility (46,000 square feet) in Moon Township located within one mile of the Pittsburgh airport will house the customer services and maintenance training functions, sup plementing the nearby existing train ing center. • It has not yet been determined how much of the 700,000 square feet of office space in Winston-Salem will become surplus and eventually sublet or sold. However, much of this space will continue to be utilized by mainte nance, reservations, various marketing functions, MIS, and accounting. For Henson and Jetstream New presidents named USAir recently announced the selec tion of new presidents for Henson Avia tion and Jetstream International, wholly-owned subsidiaries of USAir Group. Ronald H. Holley has been named president and chief executive officer of Henson Aviation, effective January 1, 1989. Holley will assume these re sponsibilities from Richard Henson, founder and long-time chief executive officer of the company, who will retain the position of chairman of the board. Holley is currently vice president- operations services for USAir. He joined the airline in 1980 as staff director-line maintenance and held several other management positions prior to assuming his current job in 1984. Holley, a 30-year veteran of the airline industry, has held positions with American Airlines and Northeast Airlines. The relationship between Henson and USAir began in 1967 when Hen son, under contract with USAir prede cessor Allegheny Airlines, began the first Allegheny Commuter service. In 1983 Piedmont Aviation agreed to pur chase Henson Aviation over a four-year period. As a result of USAir Group’s purchase of Piedmont in 1987, Henson has become reassociated with USAir. Keith D. Houk has been named pres ident and chief executive officer of Jet stream International Airlines, effective December 19, 1988. He succeeded Cal vin Humphrey, who resigned to pursue other opportunities. Houk was president, chief operating officer and a director of States West Airlines of Phoenix, AZ, a position he had held since late 1986. Prior to that, he was vice president and director of operations for Fischer Brothers Avia tion, Inc. Houk, who holds a Bachelor of Busi ness Administration from Ohio Univer sity, served in the U.S. Air Force for five years where he was a pilot, instructor pilot, and flight examiner. On January 4, 1989 number of departures: 1,412 miles flown daily: 552,882 ASMs: 67,464,102 number of aircraft in fleet: 198 average aircraft hop: 391.6 miles daily block time flown: 1,816 hours, 16 minutes next schedule change: Meirch 2, 1989 around ^edmon On January 4, 1989, the Piedmont fleet will total 198 aircraft which reflects the de livery of one new additional 737-400 during the month of December for a total of nine. The company also operates 62 737-200s, 42 737-300S, six 767-200s, 34 727-200s, 20 Fokker F28-1000s, and 25 F28-4000s. USAir has a total of 225 aircraft including 55 737-300S, 23 737-200s, 10 727-200s, 74 DC-9s, 11 BAG I lls, 31 MD-80s. and 21 BAe-146s. Piedmont serves 96 airports/123 cities in 29 states plus the District of Columbia, Ot tawa, Montreal. London, and Nassau. USAir serves 105 airports in 36 states plus the Dis trict of Columbia, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. In the latest development related to the in tegration, several station manager assign ments were announced in late November. Effective December 5, the following individ uals assumed customer service manager (GSM), comparable to station manager, responsibilities for Piedmont and USAir at the following stations: Frank Zuzel-Boston, previously USAir CSM Boston; Jim Haney- Grand Rapids, previously Piedmont station manager Grand Rapids; Gerry Murello- Islip, previously USAir CSM Islip; Jerry Mitchell-New Orleans, previously Piedmont station manager New Orleans; Enos Groff- Providence, previously USAir CSM Prov idence; and Glenn James-Richmond, previously Piedmont station manager Rich mond. In addition, Barry Mitchell, the previ ous station manager in Boston, will assume the manager position at Charlottesville, VA. The new interest rate for contribu tions made in 1989 to the Supplemen tal Retirement Plan has been set at 9.08 percent. This will give a blended rate for all years of 8.95 percent. around SAir USAir will introduce new nonstop service in several markets beginning January 4. In cluded are one Phoenix-Orange County roundtrip, one Pittsburgh-Tiacson round- trip, and one Tlicson-Orange County round- trip. One-stop service will be added in the Pittsburgh-Burbank market. Increased ser vice also will be added between Phoenix and Burbank. All service between San Jose and Phoenix will be discontinued as a direct re sult of American’s build -up of service in San Jose. Randall Malin, USAir executive vice president-marketing, received the Allied Member Award from the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) during the recent ASTA World Travel Congress in Budapest. Established to honor those who reinforce the cohesiveness of a united travel industry, the award is one of the top honors given by ASTA. In accepting, Malin cited the support of “a whole host of friends from ASTA and associates from USAir.. .because my beliefs, my words, and my actions are a product of having listened very carefully to the view points of those who are involved in the day- to-day relationship between the airline and the travel agency.” December 1988 • Piedmonitor
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