Volume 1 Number 1
January 16,1989
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Piedmont TPA agents (I to r) Todd A
Strauss, Joe Lee, and Cynthia
Hassett will soon check-in LAX-
bound passengers when the new
TPA-LAX nonstop starts in March.
INSIDE
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1988 was a banner year for traffic
growth as both Piedmont and USAir
report increases in passenger
enplanements, RPMs, and ASMs.
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“Travelers have a lot to gain from the
marriage of Piedmont’s customer-
centered focus and USAir’s strong
operating standards...” says a just-
published book.
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PIT employee Michelle Zapotosky
used to help her brother tinker with
old cars—now she’s a maintenance
supervisor for USAir.
TPA-LAX nonstop highlights Florida
service expansion in iVlarch
USAir Group has reaffirmed its commitment to the Sunshine State by
announcing several service additions in Piedmont’s Florida markets
during the first quarter of 1989.
Highlighting the spring service
expansion is the introduction of a new
Piedmont nonstop roundtrip between
Tampa and Los Angeles Airports on
March 15.
The Los Angeles service will
originate in West Palm Beach, and
provide that city with its only direct
service to Los Angeles.
“This new service not only repre
sents a strong commitment to the
Florida market,” said Randall Malin,
USAir’s executive vice president-mar
keting, “It also represents a major step
in our program to link our West Coast
route network with major cities in the
eastern portion of the nation.”
The new daily Tampa-Los Angeles
service, operated with B737- 300 jets,
will depart Tampa at 8:30 a.m. and
arrive Los Angeles at 11:07 a.m.,
where connections wiU be available to
flights on USAir to many other cities
along the West Coast. A similar variety
of USAir flights from West Coast cities
will cormect via Los Angeles with the
return flight to Tampa, which will
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