VOLUME 46 NUMBER 7 MARCH 28, 1983
TWA Returns Secretary of Labor Visits MCI Airline Aim: to Vienna Simpler Fares TWA will resume service to Vienna via TWA will offer a new domestic fare simpli- . Frankfurt through a joint service agree fication plan based on a mileage formula ment with Austrian Airlines, effective similar to that recently announced by April24. American Airlines, effective for travel be The daily service will be flown with ginning April2. TWA Boeing 747s to -Frankfurt and Aus ''A simpler domestic. fare structure trian Airlines DC-9-80s between Frankfurt makes good Qusiness sense, and we . and Vienna - both to be designated as strongly support it," said John L. Heilner, TWA Flight 740. staff vice president-pricing. He added. TWA first began flying to Vienna in "An easy-to-understand discount fare 197 5 and discontinued service in 1980. structure will also benefit the traveler." The agreement with Austrian Airlines is TWA will make a few . exceptions to viewed as the most economic and conven American's fare levels, while still adopting ient method of serving Vienna once again. the simplified structure, Mr. Heilner said. Service features under the arrangement "In view of the severe losses being suf include: fered by almost all air carriers, and the need • Through passenger check-in to Vi to return to profitability, TWA will set mos,t enna: ~JOar~ing passes to Frankfurt and Vi of its 'fares according to the mileage for- enna may be obtained at point of . mula, but will maintain current fare levels origination. where they are significantly above the new • Advance seat selection. mileage formula and where TWA's level of · • TWA Ambassador Class business frequency and service justify these excep trav~lers will ride in Austrian's first class tions," he explained. section from Frankfurt to Vienna. The plan consists of five basic fare types: • Aircraft coordination at Frankfur~: ' Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan recently touFed the engine sliop in TWA's first class, Ambassador (business) class TWA's arriving aircraft will park ~ide by maintenance and engineering center. The tour. was arranged by former flight priced $10 to $30 above the new prevailing side with Austrian's ill order to provide engineer Nelson Krueger, now a labor department representative in Kansas City. coach fare, regular coach, unrestricted off smooth transfer. From left are: Charles Pluckhahn of the Kansas City Star; mech~mic John R. Howes peak coach priced at a 25% discount from • TWA's Frequent Flyer participants (back to camera); Earl Wheeler, Local1650 president; Secretary Donovan, and John regular coach, and a Super Saver fare at R. Keyhill, mechanic. · will obtain credit mileage for the· Frankfurt approximately 50% discount from coach. to Vienna segment, as well as the transat TWA's Super Saver rules require .reser lantic portion. vations and ticketing at least seven days Flight 740 will depart JFK at 6:45p.m., Academy is Sold before departure, and a seven to 14-day arrive Frankfurt at 8:25a.m.; depart at 9:35 Business Trans World Corporation has signed a letter stay. Both Super Saver and the unrestricted a.m., with an 11:00 a.m. arrival in Vienna. of intent to sell the Breech Training Acad off-peak fare will be capacity controlled. A The return flight, #741 , departs Vienna at as Usual? emy in Overland Park, Kansas City, to the ~ children's discount of25% off each of the 7:10a.m., arrives Frankfurt at 8:40a.m., Yarco Companies, a real estate firm which fare types will be offered. departs Frankfurt at 10:50 a.m., _and ar-· (Cont'd) plans to use the facility as a conference Fares which are currently set to expire rivesatJFK 1:10p.m. center. betwe~n April2 through 15 will be allowed --Highlights o( Austii.a;s tourist. attrac The hub and mini-hub concept has spurred . to expire as scheduled. For fares which tions, and the regulations governing ·em the growth of second-tier airpParis agreement under which PSA would have roundtrip added; JFK-Madrid frequency leased 30 planes from Braniff and hired increased to daily service; JFK-Lisbon fre 2,200 jobless Braniff employees, a rapid _ quency increased to four times weeki y, and expansion plan by PSA collapsed. Now, Barcelona service will operate via Lisbon · says president Paul Barkley, the airline will instead of Madrid. have to proceed slowly and piecemeal. With the Braniff deal, PSA would have taken ''one big leap''' he said. 1982 Award Winners A complete list of TWA's . 1982 Howard Putnam, who has tried hard to "Award of Excellence" winners. by · salvage what is left of Braniff Airlines, department appears on page eight. says he will leave the company after a new Top departmental award winners had reorganization plan is filed in Federal not yet been selected at press time. bankruptcy -court: The company that Information on those employees will evolves will have fewer than 200 employ TWA's new Travel Store in the famed Country Club Plaza in Kansas City was opened appear in the April 11 Skyl~ner. ees - compared to 9,500 employed hv the recently by the team of (from left) Armand Schaefer, ticket sales agent; Jillian Woods, - (topage3) passenger sales assi~tant, and Archie Niccum, ticket sales agent-in-charge. ----- ~ J the actual activity experienced. Addition ally, staffing then considers quality stand- · 11 CDB's Calling All Radio Hams ards set by TWA to ensure a good level of Box605 service. Unfortunately, the deregulated environ ment and the free market system have se ! Give It Your Best ! verely affected our ability to accurately 1 TWA has cut its ATO, CTO and res forecast passenger and call volumes. As an l· Q ervations personnel to the marrow. Is example, many changes are directly influ the money saved in pay costs really worth enced by the actions of our competitors, the potential revenue lost due to the severe which then directly impact TWA. The $99 drop in the quality of service being offered fare is a good example of this impact. _ ~ehind the counters or on the phones? A Another carrier forced TWA to match a low recent article on SAS·in the Los Angeles fare, with the result that TWA had addi Times noted that "Other airlines make the tional volume. Our ability to respond to this mistake of cutting costs across the aboard, additional activity with additional staffing without considering that the resulting de lags far behind the marketplace, where new cline in quality of service drives away pas f-ares can be in place i11 hours. sengers." How many customers have we As far as the SAS statement is con lost to our competition because of under cerned, SAS does not experience the same staffing? Try to get someone _to answer lost problems in a regulated international envi & found at any airport or a res office to ronment as we do in a deregulated domestic answer every call within the magic 20 sec U.S. environment. In addition, the fare onds. Although !.support almost all corpo structures are totally different. Again, SAS rate policies and decisions) my question does not have to compete with a low yield here is __.:. How much money are we really $99 transcon fare. Pet Fanchin in his shack, using the paddle for Morse code operation. saving by sacrificing our quality of serv I understand how frustrating it can be . ? Ice· 'Herb McFarland working on the firing line with the many by Pietro "Pet" Fanchin other hams, by phone or CW (Morse code)·, LAX Reservations changes that occur almost daily and affect in every comer of the globe. (Mr. Fanchin, now retired after 31 years with rwA, I now have Japanese transceivers for 144 our abilities, at times, to give a high level of was -supervisor-sales for Turin, Italy.) (from P. E. Boucher, vice president service. I am pleased to see that you are and 435 megahertz, to work in mode "J", A Western region):.lnherent in all staff concerned, as we all are. Each one of us I'll be listening next month when the OS and Oscar 10 's elliptical orbit will allow ing associated with airpo~ and reservations must individually provide the best service CAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur better radio contacts with many countries is a forecast that gets as close as possible to we can, with a smile. Radio) 10 satellite Phase III goes into or in the northern hemisphere. bit .. Now that I'm retired, I have time to The next development on the radio com relax and listen to the passage of the OS munications frontier will be a geosta around the TWA system are invited. The CAR satellites, as well as the RS 3, 4, 5, 6, tionary satellite, placed . high above the affair will be held at the Gold Buffet, North 7 and 8 "tovarish" satellites, launched by mid-Atlantic, which will allow communi Kansas City, with reception at 6 p.m. and Editor's Notes- the USSR. cations with no problem of propagation or dinner at 7 p.m. Cost is $15 per person. For I've been a ham radio operator since interference from sun spot activity. reservations phone Jim Tarwater at 741- 1949 when I built my first transmitter, I'd be happy to hear from other TWA 5833; Cliff Cranfill at 891-4602; Ed Lewis Hartford boarded 3,280 revenue passen using World War II surplus materials. I was hams. My radio address is IlCDB (India at243-4190, or Bill Smithat452-4236. All gers in February, which was a station able to make QSOs {radio contact~) with One Charlie Delta Bravo). 73s to all. boarding record and may well be a system are area code 816. · record for a station with only one daily Bachelors beware (or: "The Case of the sight and a sharp-eyed travel agent. departure. The month's 27' flights (the East Contagious DC-3''). Captain Ed Betts re A while back Republic offered a promo- Reunion Cancelled· Coast blizzard forced cancellation of one cently told how he and flight attendant , tional free roundtrip anywhere on its sys flight) averaged 121.5 passengers each, on Plans for the "Fam + 30" reunion Donna Breckenridge met aboard plane tem t<>- anyone transiting any of its hubs, a 707-331B aircraft. That translates into a which was to have been held in Lon #385,-a bC-3,' in 1946 and within a year ' one of which is Atlanta. But they forgot 79.4% monthly load factor (versus a sys- don in April have been cancelled by got married. Walt Stout, Los Angeles flight about the cheap $54 roundtrip fare _tem average of 65.0%). "This was Hart the Seniors club board of directors. · engineer, tells us the same thing happened Valdosta-Atlanta-Dothan. A travel agent ford's second straight record-setting month "There was an early, enthusiastic re to him. #385's log shows that Mildred in Tallahassee, Florida spotted the fare and since implementation of 'Kids Fly Free'," sponse to the idea," said reunion coor Geiman was hostess on that particular air advised customers to drive 60 miles to notes Randy A. Garfield, manager- dinator Frank Smith, "but when it craft from Columbus to Kansas City on Valdosta to catch the flight and the freebie. - _passenger sales. ''March looks like another came to signing up, I guess old Father . June 13,1946, thentoChicagoonJune 16: Word got around and since then two daily strong month," he notes, adding that, as a Time caught up with some of us!'' Walt held out a little longer than Ed, not . DC-9s have been jam-packed. smaller 727-200 has replaced the 707 on The tour was to have been a get popping the question until 1949. Republic could have corrected the situa the BDL-STL service, load factors may go together of many employees who de tion, but decided the free publicity was up even higher. Hartford will add a second veloped personal ties and close a good day, Republic Air's been lucky worth the free tickets. Anyway, the deal daily flight on April24. On working relationships as a result of to board a handful of passengers between : expires at month's end. . company familiarization trips to Eu Paul Coker, longtime lAM official in Valdosta, Georgia and Dothan, Alabama. rope during the 1950s. Some 35 cur Kansas City will be honored at a retirement But that 60-mile route is "on the map" A non-flying 767, the fifth new-genera rent and retired employees did make dinner on May 21, to which friends from now, with a vengeance, th~s to an over- tion twinjet airframe built, has completed reservations for the reunion, but this the equivalent of 20 years of airline flying was judged insufficient to obtain fa to prove the airplane's structural soundness. vorable group rates. 'Goldy' Go~dthorpe is Honored The airframe test began in April, 1982. Testing to date has duplicated 50,000 flights, simulating in three and a half min as Smith, co-pilot as Collins, and mechanic utes all segments of a one-hour trip from as Parker, and added "Please put more of taxi-out through takeoff, climb, cabin these in the paper. I love them." ~ pressurization, and cruise, to descent and de-pressurization, landing and taxi-in. The airlines' commitment to travel agents Simulated turbulence and maneuvers have will be tested severely as soon as one of been included in each segment. them, perhaps a smaller innovative carrier that has prospered from deregulation, takes · Delta Airline's running club, "Delta the first step, says financial columnist Syl Dusters," will host the · second annual via Porter. She notes that Ticketron, which World Airline Road Race in Orlando, Flor has 800 outlets nationwide, expects to be ida on October 15. More than 300 runners selling airline tickets by this. summer. and joggers from 31 airlines competed in the first annual race which was held last September in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. This year, a thousand runners are expected. Distances will be 5 and 10 kilo meters. For details write to World Airline Published for Employees by the - Road Race, P.O. Box 45003, Atlanta, Public Affairs Department Georgia 30320 . . 605 Third Avenue, New York 10158 Half a hundred associates turned out for a farewell party in honor of Roger "Goldy'' · Printed in U.S.A A conundrum solved: First' in with the Goldthorpe, flight crew scheduling-JFK, who recently retired after more than 40 Dan Kemnitz, Editor solution to our conundrum (see March 14 years with TW..A. Goldy began his career as a radio operator. Pictured with him are Anne Saunders, Associate Editor Tony Tarricone (left), director-flight crew scheduling, and AI Whitmore, general Skyliner) was Joan Arbuthnot of Los manager-operations systems. Angeles. She correctly identified the pilot
March 28, 1983 1503 Harvard Ave.; Brunswick,..Ohio Civic Groups Hail_Travel ~ Store 44212. Please enclose a stamped, ~elf- - addressed return envelope to obtain an itin erary. There are now close to 500 TWA retirees High Cost of Landing in the International region, according to TWA will suspend service at Fort Myers, francis Degioanni, president-of that Sen I . Florida on April 23, citing higher landing iors chapter. Until now, Seniors club ac fees and related costs of moving to the new tivities have centered on Paris. However, Southwest Florida Regional Airport sched efforts are underway to establish a chapter uled to open May 15. Landing fees at the in Rome, which would be a focal point for new airport would be $4.15 per 1,000 all Mediterranean countries. pounds of gross landing weight, several The Northeast Seniors chapter will hold times those at Lee County Airport, which its annual spring luncheon In the Prop TWA has served since December 15, 1979. Room of the JFK international terminal on (The national average is 89¢; landing fee at Tuesday, April5. "Inflation-beater" price Tampa, only 50 miles away, is 18¢ .) Air of$7 .50 includes gratuity and tax. Gather port operators said the higher fees are nec ing time, 11 a.m. Parking and crew bus . essary to pay off two bond issues on airport available at Hangar 12. · - construction. Seven TWA employees at Fort Myers Tom Burns in Agency Post will have the opportunity to relocate. , Mal Schroeder, a bank official who has The appointment of Tom Burns as supervisor-agency sales programs on the worked to expand airline service in South Ribbon-cutting ceremonies to open the new TWA TraveLStore in Kansas City's west Florida said he was disappointed in 605 Third staff has been announced by Tim Carey, manager-agency sales. Mr. Bums Country Club Plaza were attended by (from left) Miller Nichols, chairman of the ! TWA's withdrawalandthatFortMyers was board of J. C. Nichols Company; Bob Lauchlan, city vice president for TWA; Harold . losing a ''damned good carrier.'' The Fort previously was staff analyst on the Eastern· region controller's staff. Prior to tha! he Tivol, president of the Plaza .Association, and Richard McBee, supervisor-sales Myers News Press, in an editorial, notes planning arid administration. that landing fees at the new Fort Myers was an account manager for more than · eight years. · - airport would be the highest in the U.S. and price wars, sluggish traffic and increased urged that they be lowered before they "kill competition. the goose that lays the golden egg." Warns of 'Gray Market' As Usual?••• ..,. _ (from page ~ne) With the Civil Aeronautics Board no longer Air Florida says it is "constrained by ··a , · TWC Files Lawsuit regulating domestic air fares, "the door is airline a year ago- and concentrate on real lack of liquidity" (i.e, short of cash); it is · seeking to defer payments on its debts and 1 Trans World Corp. has filed suit in Federal now open to private arrangements between estate, maintenance services and pilot airlines and sales intermediaries outside training . . to dispose of a number of aircraft. It re- · court against Odyssey Partners and various cently replaced a DC-10 on its Miailli the travel agency system and ~uch varia others. The suit claims that the defendants In light of a cost-saving agreement be tions of gray-market pricing as kickbacks LondOJ? run with a 707. constitute an illegal group under Federal tween American Airlines and the Transport and rebates," warns Neil Effman, senior will buy Boeing 727s law and have been engaged in an illegal Workers Union (TWU) mechanics at other People Express fO vice president-aidine planning. TWA from bankrupt Braniff for a "fire sale" proxy solicitation for the propose of pro airlines "may ultimately face the choice of · strongly opposes such practices, he told price of about $4 million each, and plans to moting the dismemberment of TWC. granting similar concessions or seeing their Travel Agent magazine. lease a Boeing 747 if it gets approval for a Named in the suit were several partners in employers lose ground to American in the Newark-London route. The move would Odyssey, including Jack Nash, Leon Levy, fierce -competition· for customers," says double PE's fleet. Burt Fingerhut and Lester Pollack. Busin~ss Week magazine. Among conces Trans World also received a· demand sions granted to American by the TWU Midway Airlines has begun a campaign to from Odyssey seeking a. list ofTWC stock In IVIenioriam were more use of part-tirrie employees and shed its no-frills image. holders in connection with a proposal. it the right to cross-utilize. Another conces · Intent on getting British Airways off the · plans to submit at Trans World's annual sion will set pay rates for new hires at about taxpayer's back, says chairman Sir John meeting on April 27. Trans World asserted Thomas J. Sparks, retired customer service agent, of two-thirds of current levels. All in all, Springlake Heights, New Jersey, died March I. He King: "The airline has been condU<;:ted as . that any breakup of the company "would American estimates it will save $50 million was 63. Mr. Sparks retired in 1981 after 27 years with though money grows on trees~ No longer." imperil the future Of one of the nation's TWA. He is survived by his wife, Beth.' a year and that in three years its labor costs largest air carriers and one of its flag carri for mechanics will be nearly 15% below When Skyliner initiated this feature some . ers to foreign nations; it would also result in Flight engineer Francis A. Reed, JFK, died March 7 in an automobile accident. Mr. Reed as 44 years old. those of other major carriers. months ago, it was meant to act as a collect .,. the irreversible loss to Trans World of the He joined TWA in March 1967. He is survived by his ing point for industry news items illustrat flight engineers have long-term opportunities _the future holds wife, Margaret, and five children. Pan American's ing the point that the airlines have entered, voted 424-38 to continue a 10% wage cut for it." with deregulation, a radically n~w phase of Morris R. Beluch, retired lead mechanic, died and freeze through December 31, 1984. development in no way comparable to any TWAers Serve ATA March 8. He was 61 years old. Mr. Beluch joined All ofthe airline's unions have now agreed TWA in September 1946 and retired in December era of their past. The abundance of testi Several TWA executives have been elected 1979. He is survived by his wife, Lorraine. to extend t~e concessions, first agreed to in mony which has filled these colurims has to key positions in the Air Transport Asso- _ October, 1981-. surely proved the case to a}l except those ·ciation (ATA) for 1983: When the head of TWU Local 553 said who most resolutely insist on believing that · Ed Frankum, senior vice president ·She's a Winner Eastern's 6,300 flight attendants · would all these new things have happened before. operations, was named to the operations honor lAM picket lines in event of a strike, Its point having been made, this feature and technical council. The council has a many disagreed, according to the Miami now ends its function as a focus of such key role in the development of industry Herald. One told the newspaper that Patri news. However, the flow of events further wide policies promoting continued pro cia Fink had "lost touch with her member demonstrating' its thesis will, of course, gress in flight safety and efficiency. ship. This is not the time to be asking for continue. Charles L. Glass, senior president and more money," he said. "If we do, we will controller, will serve on the economics and be in the same position as Braniff, Laker· Softball Tourney finance council, which advises on· eco and PATCO and all the companies and un nomic and financial planning and forecast ions that have gone under.'' Said another: The annual TWA Fast-Pitch Softball ing for the airline industry. "Any group of employees that strikes now Tournament will be held in Kansas Jon Ash, vice president-government af has to be crazy." City August27-28, according to Larry fairs, was elected chairman of the govern Challberg, this year's tournament ~ ment and public affairs council. This group · Recent investor euphoria in airline stocks chairman. "It will be hard to top the helps develop industry positions on legisla is nonsensical, says Francis Shanahan, hospitality oflast year's hosts, Colum tive and international policy. senior v. p. of San Francisco-based bus, but we'll try," he said. He invited Jack Murphy, manager-postal affairs Crocker National Bank. Wall Street is get visiting team members to bring their and government cargo sales, was elected ting carried away, he warns. "You've got families along "and spend a couple of chairman of the ATA' s airline postal affairs to be kidding yourself to believe that {the extra days enjoying some of Kansas committee, which works closely with the industry] sickness will be remedied any City's many tourist attractions." U.S. Postal Service. time in the near future .... An industry Team managers should notify Mr. shakeout within a year is practically a fore Challberg as early as possible of their Seniors News Yvonne Benitez, daughter of Los gone conclusion," he said. . intention to compete. Write to him at Angeles maintenance inspector Pedro RR#1,-Box 173A, Trimble, Missouri The new Ohio Valley chapter of the TWA Benitez~ Jr., was runner-up in the eighth Texas Air Corp., which just finished buy- · 64151. Phone (816) 635-4970. An Seniors already numbers about 70 mem annual1983 Miss Toyota Grand Prix at ing Continental Airlines, is now planning other contact is John Bing (retired), bers, president George Gleckler reports. Long Beach, California. Mr. Benitez, a to sell 20% of it to a Houston insurance league commissioner, 4620 N. Camp The chapter plans a 4-da:y, 3-night motor 26-year TWA veteran, is a member of company, American General · Corp. A bell St., Kansas City, Mo. 64116. coach trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls in Crew Ill at LAX. He formerly-was based Texas Air spokesman said the move re- Phone(816)453-1854. May. If interested, contact A. A. Adams; at LGA and JFK. . fleets "-liquidity problems" brought on by
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Prelude· to TWA: the '20s John Corris; TWA's public relations man and Douglas Fairbanks certainly had it. ager in Washington, D.C.for many years, Aviation contributed much to the glam "' ·is now retired and has been assisting Bob our and excitement of the twenties. It was Serling on research for his history ofTWA. the era of the barnstorming dare-devil avia Mr. Corris arranged interviews for Serling tors, the wing walkers, air shows and the $5 with scores ofpast and present TWAers and ride. Roscoe Turner operated the "alimony accompanied the writer on his travels special" between Los Angeles and Reno around the coun.try. and one entrepreneur built an airplane spe cifically fer transporting bootleg liquor. by John Corris There were all kinds of aviation firsts . When the planning for the nation's first and record flights: Cmdr. Richard Byrd transcontinental passenger airline began in .r;nade the first flights over the North and . the fall of 1928 Americans were still riding . South Poles; Ernie Smith, later to become a the high of the Roaring Twenties, a decade TWA pilot and sales executive, and his in which many pursued a simple objective: companion became the first civilians to fly · to have a good time. the Pacific even though their flight ended And good times they were despite Prohi rather ingloriously-in a grove of trees on bition, which forced young ladies, in short Molokai. Charles Levine was the first
skirts and powdered knees, on the arms of tr;,msatlantic passenger, making the trip in . ' dudes in knickers and raccoon _coats into June '27; Chamberlin made it from New Writer/researcher Bob Serling (right) interviewed Carter Burgess, TWA president speakeasies where they danced the York to Germany., but the French war ace 1956-57, while gathering material for his history of the airline. Charleston and enjoyed the music of DUke· Charles Nugesser, vanished over the Atlan Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Blues tic on his attempt. singers were offering such memorable TWA traces its heritage to 1925 when · numbers as "Hit Me In The Nose Blues." Western Air Express, a predecessor com 'Speaks' and 'Talkies' pany, was organized to begin operations a year later between Los Angeles and Salt Before things got into full swing in the Lake City. Calvin Coolidge was president late-night "speaks", there were "Fifty and his administration took a "laissez M~llion Frenchmen," on Broadway, a hit faire" attitude on aviation even though the musical, along with Paul Whiteman in con airlines were doing the job of getting the cert playing Gershwin's "Rhapsody In mail through the worst weather under a . Blue". And the biggest attraction- mov contract with Uncle Sam. Aviation was not ies, not the silent ones but real "talkies" then considered a business and it didn't fit which AI Jolson gave birth to in the 1927 . in with the Coolidge slogan: "The. Busi sound flick, "The Jazz Singer." Popeye ness of America is Business." and Mickey Mouse were born, but the glamour girls of the. sil ve~ screen brought in Plan Transcon Route the crowds . .Clara Bow was the "it" girl All that would change in years to come (you either had "it" or you didn't). For the thanks to the vision of men like the quartet · female movie goers,· Rudolph Valentino who met in late 1928 to plan the first transcontinental airline for the purpose of Lee Flanagin (right), here being iliterviewed by Bob Serling, started as a mechanic for carrying people, not just mail. Among the Aero Corporation of California, later became a TWA captain. group was a young ex-air mail pilot who a · little more than a year earlier had electrified (TAT), another TWA predecessor line. Amelia Earhart, who became the first the world by flying the "Spirit of St. If nothing else the late twenties was· a woman to fly the Atlantic in 1928, movie Louis" from New York to Paris, alone and period.of hero worshipping and the hero of · stars Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson, Stephen J. Christian, JFK, Apr. 1 (37) . nonstop. Charles A. -Lindbergh was to con- heroes, "Lucky Lindy," gave to the TAT who participated in the inaugural ceremo John R. Morrison, MCI, Apr. 1 (19) . ·tribute mm;h to the successful inauguration operation that magic elem~nt that almost nies couldn't keep the Tri-motors' load Crafford 0. York, MCI, Apr. 1 (24) onJuly 8, 1929 of the coast-to-coast serv . guarantees nation-wide publicity. But factors at capacity. Eugene S. Miller, JFK, Apr. 14 (29) ice by Transcontinental Air Transport Lindbergh and his fellow TAT employee, (To be continued.) Harold G. Parnell, BOS, Mar. i (13) Mary Be~h Kelly, PHL, Jan. 1 (33) the F-lO's. The Fokker airplanes were being operated in the U.S. Subsequently Donald E. Orarn, JED. Jan. 1 (25) Aircraft Fuselage phased out of TWA's operation in the late the grounding order was lifted on any F JackJ. Sanfilippo, JFK, Mar. 1 (17) A. G. Djerdjerian, CAl, Mar. 1 (18) A S~~:_per Universal spring and early summer of 1932, almost lO's that had wings built in Holland. W. W. SheltQn, MCI, May 1 (18) by John E. Guy two years before w~ received the first pro If the airplanes had American-built G. 0. Michaels, MCI, May 1 (26) duction model of the DC-2 in May of 1934. wings, certain modifications and inspec While I ha-ve no desire to be a nit-picker or John P. Koclanes, MCI, May 1 (16) TWA's decision to retire the Fokker F- tions were required before the aircraft to continue to whip a dead horse, or in this Robert A. Williams, MCI, May 1 (30) 10 's came about as a result of an accident to could be returned to service. Additionally case a dead airplane, I just can't go along )uanita C. Vogel, MCI, May 1 (37) an F-1 0 that lost a wing over Bazaar, Kan we were required to conduct stringent peri C. T. Overcash, MCI, May 1 (30) with my dear old friend Lew Goss, .that the sas on March 31, 1931 which resulted in. odic follow-up inspections that required Donald D. Levick, LAX, May 1 (18) Fokker described in the January · fus~lage the death ·of Knute Rockne and five other the removal of certain plywood panels E. W. Register, LAX, May 1 (35) 3rd issue of the Sky liner is an F-1 0. It is just passengers and the TWA crew. As a result from the wings to check for spar condition, James E. Wolf, Ft. Monmouth SATO, M_ay 1 (41) too small a fuselage to be an F-1 0. It is a of the accident the Bureau of Air Com dry-rot, etc. This was both a time consum- John R. Atkinson, MCI, May 1 (31) single-engine airplane known as a Fokker Bliss J. Morse, MCI, May 1 (37) merce that regulated air transportation (be . ing operation and expensive and was the Super Universal. George R. Johnson, MCI, May 1 (37) fore the advent of the CAA or the FAA) basic reason behind the decision to finally .To confirm this, I sent the picture to a Betty J. Hayes, MCI, May 1 (15) placed a grounding order ·against all F-1 0' s retire the airplanes in 1932. R. M. Kochersperger, MCI, May 1 (42) person well known to many TWA old tim Salvatore Provato, LGA, May 1 (18) ers, E. C. ·"Red" Long. In. the 1920's Erriesto Rosado, LAX, May 1 (27) "Red" worked for Tony Fokker at the B. J. McCarthy, MCI, May 1 (41) Fokker factory in Wheeling, West Vir George F. Fiany, EWR, May 1 (36) ginia, where many of the Fokker-designed · Emmett E. Banks, JFK, May 14 (29) John R. Garzero, ROM, May 1 (41) airplanes, such as the F-lO's, F-32's and R.obert L. McClure, JFK, May 4 (30) the Super Universals were built. I venture Harold E. McCoy, MCI, May 1 (31) to say that Red Long, so far as the mechani Julio A. Lopes, BOS, May 1 (29) cal and engineering details are concerned, Ralph M. Sudduth, MCI, May 1 (37) probably knows more about Fokker air Margaret Mitenbuler, EWR, May 1 (20) craft than most anyone alive today. I asked Francis D. Fitzgibbon, MCI, May 23 (30) him to identify this aircraft fuselage. He Russell P. Myers, JFK, May 8 (30) replied that it was a Super Universal, defin Thomas Cazzallo, JFK, May 1 (31) itely not an F-1 0. W. F. Wisker, CMH, May 1 (32) R,ichard K. Jordan, PIT, May 1 (29) While on this subject ofFokker aircraft, H. N. Bunker, MCI, May 1 (38) I might comment on__Milo Raub's remarks William R. Lindley, MCI, May 1 (20) about the F-1 0 aircraft. He is correct in all James F. Gallagher, SFO, May 1 (36) he said describing the F-1 0' s except for one Frank W. Soukup, LAX, May 16 (35) point, wherein he stated that the F-lO's George M. Kulp, Jr., LAS, May 1 (22) _ were operated by W~ & TWA, "until George W. Long, JFI<, May 19 (37) 1934 when they were replaced, as were the Anthony Catalano, JFK, Apr. 1 (30) Fords, by the DC-2's". This statement George E. Jackson, JFK, Mar. 25 (29) with respect to the Fords is correct but not Fokker Super Universal Photo- Ed Betts collection
4 March 28, 1983 .Return to Vienna· :Vienna Fact -Sheet ble basis, economy class. For tickets write to Austrian Airlines at either: 608 Fifth • Aii:port: Wien Sc.hwechat, I 0 ·miles Avenue, New York, NY 10020 or 4000 from city; bus service to the Hilton Hotel, MacArthur Blvd., Newport Beach, CA every 20 minutes, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Price: 92660. An original letter of verification of approximately $3.00. There is also train employment, no more than two weeks old, · service about every hour from 7:30 a·.m. to must accompany request. Advise desired 8:30p.m.. itinerary and enclose applicable payment, • L~nguage: German. . e.g. FRA-VIE oneway $25; FRA-VIE • Currency: The Austrian schilling, roundtrip $50. Tickets will be returned to which contains I 00 groschen (one dollar the individual signing letter of verifi~ation. U.S.-approx. I6 schillings). The Waltz Away fare is nonrefundable. • Visa requirement: None for U.S. However, if an unused ticket is returned tourists. - within qne month after its expiration date, • Climate: Summer is usually sunny its validity may be extended for three more and dry, with temperatures in the 70's. months. This extension will be granted Winter can be cold and damp with snow or only once. No change to the original rout rain, temperatures in the 30's. Spring and Vienna Opera ing is permitted. autumn· usually have sunny days. Waltz Away fares may not. be self • Population: 1.6 million. ticketed by TWA. • Public transportation: There is a unit fare system valid on all buses, trams and subways. Ti~kets can be purchased in ad Feeling's Mutual vance at a reduced rate from tobacconists (in blocks of five tickets) or from vending Background machines at full price. Passengers stamp As TWA consolidates its route network their own tickets upon boarding buses and around its two hubs (STL and JFK), we are trams. A special three-day unlimited mile continually reviewing new cities which can age ticket can also be purchased. enhance the airline's profitability. Among • Shopping: Main shopping areas are in international candidates, Vienna offers the the city center (1st district). Shops are nor advantage of being a relatively large mar mally open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 ket ( 150 passengers. a day to the U.S.) p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-12 noon. Viennese lacking any direct U.S.-flag service. Since handicrafts are well known for their qual this market is not large enough to profitably ity: handpainted porcelain, decorative ce support a nonstop flight from New York ramics, handmade dolls and leather goods. and TWA no longer maintains 707's in • Time Zone: Central European (same Europe for one-stop service, the interline as Germany). arrangement was seen by TWA and Aus trian as mutually beneficial. Employee Travel to Vienna
P~es Vienna . All passriders, positive or space avaihi Vienna,· the capital of Austria, is a de ble, wiil need two authorizations: A TWA lightful city·known around the world for its pass to Frankfurt and an Austrian Airlines hospitality, music, food, as well as its authorization FRA-VIE. Austrian Airlines sights; its art galleries and museums; its allows TWA employees a special space two 18th century palaces, Schonbrunn and available "Waltz Away" fare. This ticket Belvedere; the opera, with its sumptuous must be obtained in advance of travel, as · interior; the Spanish Riding School; the described below. Grinzing district where young wine can be SA passriders will stand by at JFK for sampled at its heurigers directly from the JFK-FRA and at FRA for FRA-VIE. Posi vineyards; and flowing through its center, tive passriders will obtain separate passes the Danube. from TW and OS, and book their flights Geographically, Vienna is within 30 separately, i.e. TWA. 740 JFK-FRA and miles of the Hungarian and Czechoslovak OS 402 FRA-VIE. b~rders; and is actually east of Prague. Space available or positive passengers Because of its location at the end of the must obtain two boarding passes: ( 1) a Austrian Alps, Vienna has been a na~ral Austrian Airlines DC-9 Super 80. TWA boarding pass JFK 'to FRA and (2) an . transit point over the centuries between Austrian Airlines sisted then of four British Vickers Vis Austrian Airlines boarding pass Frankfurt east and west: merchants navigating on the counts. Austrian entered the jet age in 1963 Vienna. Passenger must check in at the Danube used to meet there, as did crusaders Austrian Airlines'· precursor, the· Aus with the French-built Caravelle, which Austrian Airlines gate at FRA to obtain the passing through on their way to the Holy trian Transport Company, or OLAG, was was repiaced in 1971 with a fleet of Mc OS boarding pass. Westbound, check in at Land. The Turks unsuccessfully attempted founded in ·1923 and· operated until the Donnell Douglas DC-9-30's.' Today the the Austrian Airlines ticket counter in Vi to conquer Vienna in 1683 and the Romans occupation Qf Austria in I938. It was not Austrian fleet consists of IO DC-9-SO's, 5 enna; check in at TWA gate inFRA. built a fortress there almost two thousand years ago. The Austrian empire consisted untili957, upon the conclusion of the state DC-9-50's and 3 DC-9-30's. The company 15% RRISA of many countries and people governed for treaty granting Austria's independence, has 2, 700 employees. All aircraft have first · - that Austrian Airlines was founded. On class sections, with first class leather seats TWA, Austrian, or other airline person- many centuries from Vienna. Today, Vi March 31, 1958 the first Austrian Airlines in the DC-9-80 's used for TWA's joint nel, would need two 7 5% reduced rate enna is the seat of several United Nations flight took off from Vienna. The fleet con- service to Vienna. · tickets: JFK-FRA, TW, and FRA-VIE, · organizations, as well as the headquarters OS. Stand-by procedures are the same as ofOPEC. . those for passriders. The city was spared heavy bombing dur ing World War II and has maintained its SATO Revenue Soars 50% RRIPOS 18th and 19th century architecture. Public · Clipped Wings TWA received $71.1 million in revenues Through check-in JFK-VIE and reserva transportation is reliable and inexpensive '83 Convention through Scheduled Airlines Ticket Offices (SATO) in 1982, an 18.i% increase over tions are permitted. and many of the sight~ and shopping in the The I983 biennial convention of 1981. This compares with a 10.6% indus center of town can be experienced on foot,. TWA's Clipped Wings Internation;U try growth. Much of the increase was at 'Waltz Away' Fare · in streets closed to automobile traffic. The will be held in Detroit October 5-8, Vienna Woods and the Danube valley are tributed to the St. Louis hub's serving as a Eligible: Employee, spouse, dependent president Gwen Mahler announced. easily accessible on the outskirts of the city. convenient connecting point. In addition, children under age 21 . (Retired employees The Detroit chapter, headed by Ka there is the attraction of TWA's 50% fur and ,parents of active employees are not ren Pappas, will host the convention; lough fare for armed forces personnel. eligible for Waltz Away fares; however · Austria Ginny Loewe will serve as convention they. are eligible for the standard 75% space Austria has made several contributions to chairman. Dollar Buys More available or 50% positive space reduced modern aviation: the ''Doppler Effect'' 'in Headquarters will be the Southfield rate tickets, which may be self-ticketed by rl:!-dio navigation· was named after an Aus Sheraton Hotel, in suburban The U.S. dollar now buys 50 to 60% more TWA). trian and aircraft speed -relative to the speed Southfield, Michigan. in Europe than it did two years ago, accord Waltz Away interline fare costs $25 over of sound is measured in "mach", also TWA will host a wine and .cheese ing to the European Travel Commission. ·any OS flight segment on European, Mid named after an Austrian. The first interna- . party the evening of October 9 at the 'The ETC cited TWA's 1983 Getaway Tours dle East and North African routes. This tional scheduled flight was operated from Detroit Yacht Club. ' as a prime example of the bargains to be had fare is valid year around on a space availa- Vienna to Kiev in 1918. this year.
March 28, 1983 5 Houston Hears About '83 Getaways_ Anniversaries
John L. Witzleben, LAX Leonard J. Eveleth, BOS April Albert N. Wulfers, SFO Gerald W. Ferguson, Sr., MCI Moritz H. Zwicki, LAX Phyllis M. Fortune, CHI Priscilla R. Freeman, JFK 40Years Donald R. Funkhouser, MCI Francis J. Wachdorf, ICT 25Years Shelagh M. Gibbs, NYC .._ James F. Gravett, MCI Ronald J. Almeida, BOS Donald R. Grubbs, MCI 35Years Norman. E. Baldwin, MKC Ellen L. Hardbaugh, MKC Marisa Belluccio, ROM Roy F. Hornbuckle, MCI ·Dominick Digeronimo, JFK Harry J. Connor, BOS Walter Hott, MCI Boyd H. Fitzgerald, JFK Thomas W. Cornish, ORQ Patricia A. Hultz, CVG Sally Coupland, NYC Richard G. Forristall, JFK William A. lies, MCI Carole S. Dalley, JFK Edgar fl. Kimball, JFK David Johnson, NYC Eugene A. Defigueiredo, JFK June Schoettle, CHI Nolan J. Jones, MCI Carlos M. Deza, SFO Herman C. Tillard, LAS John R. Jordison, MKC Carl DiMartino, Jr. , MKC Jack E. Whitt, PHX Michael Kane , ABQ Doreen M. Eastwood, DCA Herman F. Zeffer, JED Margaret K. Keams, MKC Kenneth W. Godfrey, MKC Houston area travel agents received a review of TWA's 1983 Getaway Vacations at a' Robert C. Koch, JFK reception in the Houstonian Hotel & Club. Houstonian president Russ Harris (second Femand C. Graser, JED Jerald J. Komer, MCI · from left) is shown welcoming (from left) Craig Pavlus, regional director-passenger ·30Years Robert A. Greco, JFK Thomas E. Kuhn, MCI Willie E. Harmon, JFK Eleanor M. Baisden, NYC sales; Dick Hoxworth, manager-passenger sales; and Steve Bonniwell, general sales Herbert Huberman, TLV Ni.cole Lacour, COG Joyce M. Barstow, CVG manager-Texas and New Mexico. · John J. Keating, BDL Jean-Louis Lepierres, CDG Lewis E. Bliss, JFK Robert E. Knife, DAY Patricia A. Loustau, JPK William Brown, Jr., JFK Mary J. Lebaron, ORD Carol A. Magidson, LAX Albert J. Clevenger, MCI Frank R. Lucido, MCI Flora M. Mahone, MKC Thomas A. Conley, LGA LeBaron A. Mahar, BOS Richard J. Majcher, CHI Vincent C. Cottitta, MCI Robert H. Maskalick, SDF Beverly A. Marks, MKC John A. Cremeans, PHL Elmer B. Matthews, STL MarthaJ. Marrs, LAX Harrison W. Davenport, PHL Joseph Matto, BOS Manfred Matter, JFK Ronald Decoma, DEN T. Joyce M. McDaniel, LAX John F. McGill, LGA Jules Duval, MCI L. Torrance R. McLinden, MCI Joseph N. Falato, PHL Sandra Morales, NYC James C. Motsinger, MCI Jean Fekete, JFK Fahim Nasrallah, LON William A. Murray, LAX William G. Fuenfhausen, MCI James W. Nethery, Jr., MCI Martin O'Shaughnessy, JFK William R. O'Connor, MKC Frank P. Green, ABQ Laura I. Phillips, LAXL · James W. Hackett, LAX Charles F. Paige, PHL Deborah L. Poulton, SFO Donald R. Halverson, LAX Simone Parisi, JFK , Gilbert Rabbat, CDG John Happy, JFK Emily E. Parrish, MKC T. John Ryan, LGA John H. Hoard, MCI William E. Perkins, Jr., MKC Vincent N. Santucci, HAR AlbertR Hollings, OKC Vincent Pizzonia, JFK Franz T. Saurman, HAR Willard G. Hoveland, JFK Murray A. Powell, Jr., LAX Dale E. Sheffer, SFO June T. Johnson, CHI Arnold D. Rardon, MCI RobertJ. Vargo, ORD Doris M. Lane, STL John T. Riead, MCI James W. Willis, CMH Margery F. Lane, LAX Edwin R. Rock, LAX Boyd Ludwick, MKC John B .. Romano, LAX Mary A. McCarthy, MKC 20Years Emily M. Rutili, JFK Russell W. Melton, MCI Sandra J. Sadberry, JFK Judy Jergens and Pam Bethel of the Corporate Speakers Bureau welcomed guests to Tex Morrow, TUS William H. Adams, MCI Joseph Salama, CAl the Getaway Vacations presentation in Houston.- Both are former flight attendants. Russell P. Myers, Jr., JFK Vita C. Alexio, SFO Edward C. Sanders, JFK Gloria Oram, PHL Orlando Andretta, ROM Margit B. Schulz, JFK Joan B. Perrin, JFK Joseph Almog, TLV Glendafaye P. Sciulli, CLE naeum in · Athens; the lvoire Inter William W. Pollard, JFK Roberta R. Arendt, JFK Cyrus See,_Jr., MCI Sergio Porry-Pastorel, ROM R?bert.Bacquie, CDG Nancy T. Shafer, STL Contin~ntal in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; the. Helen F. Richards, STL Eugenia L. Baker, MKC Siam Inter-Continental in Bangkok; the Pa Maurine J. Shearer, MKC Travel Tips Senga Robertson, LON Paul Bazzimi, JFK Mitsuru Shigemura, LAX vilion in Singapore; the Inter-ContiQ.ental George F. Ryan, LGA Angela Boc.ca, MIL Harold E. Snider, MKC Maui in Hawaii; Mark Hopkins in San Edward D. Sallee,' ORD FrederickS. Boothroyd, BDL James R. Sprang, MCI Francisco; the St. Anthony in San Antonio, Paul D. Sauceman, MCI Mary A. Braun, LAX Warren J. Stehn, JFK by Harry Mickie , Texas; Montreal's Ritz-Carlton; the Ritz in William D. Scheldrup, LAX Larry E. Brotherton, MKC Camilla Stucchi, MIL Lisbon; Indonesia's Bali Beach; the Rio Francis J. Schenck, TPA Gary R. Brown, MCI Mary E. Sullivan, BOS Breckenridge Ski Area, Breckenridge, Brian Setchfield, LON Elmer E. Burk, MCI Inter-Continental and Inter-Continental Colorado, will give emplqyees and their Robert D. Shacklett, MKC John Carroll, JED James E. Talbot, MKC hotels in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, immediate family discounts on lift tickets. Kenneth R. Slaten, JFK Jean Casta, CDG Kathleen G. Taylor, STL Duss.seldorf and Cologne. All Inter-. John C. Thorman, MKC A one-day lift ticket is available for $16 Clare B. Spiewak, PHL Robert J. Corrigan, PHL Continental hotels offer airline personnel a Patrick Sullivan, JFK Earl T. Cowher, Jr., MCI Larry T.· Turpin, JED (regularly $19). Three to six-day punch 50% discount with the exception of hotels Dominick C. Truglio,,LGA Jack D. Cox, MCI Michael M. Vandreumel, IND cards are also available at large savings, as in Bombay and New Delhi (20%) and' in Sterling E. Tucker, HAR Judy A. Cox, JFK Aloysius J. Verhulst, MCI follows: three-day- $36 (regularly $51); /. . James R. Vance, LAX Aldo Dapiran, ROM Geraldine R. Victor, JFK Bucharest, Tokyo and Warsaw (25%). No four-day - $48 (regularly $64); five-day Edward J. Varak, ORD DaroldJ. Davis, MCI Ronald R. Wade, MCI reduced rate in Prague. For information -$60 (regularly $75), and six-day-$72 Robert J. Volin, JFK Alvin G. Decker, MCI Beuford K. Walker, MCI and reservations call (800) 327-0200. In (regularly $90). You must show TWA ID Ramon D. Ward, MCI Bruno De Vi~o. Mil~ Kenneth R. Werner, LGA New York; (212) 973-3800. Oliver Wharmby, PAR Larry R. Dubois, MKC Ronald E. Wieners, BDL - card to obtain the discount. Purchase tick James W. Whitcomb, JFK Allan L. Dunn, MCI Sharon L. Williams, JFK ets at any Breckenri~ge Ski Area ticket Orient. Inflight Tours Inc. has added a 12- George L. Whiting, JFK Rodney D. Ehnen, MCI Hoyt C. Wrinkle, MCI window. day "Pearls of Honshu" prog.ram for fall/ David A. Wimer, MCI William A. Esposito, JFK Nicholas A. Zinevich, MCI Britain. 12-day tour of Wales, the English winter 1983/84. Price of $1460 per person, Lake District, ·Royal Deeside, Highland· double, includes air fare from either east or The May 14-27 cruise may be the last Beach Club and Rockley Resort, Barba Lochs, Isle of Skye and Loch Maree for west coast, sightseeing in Seoul,. Tokyo, . through the Panama Canal by the Princess, dos; Turtle Beach Towers, Jamaica, and the $489, which is about $40 a day. Includes Nikko, Kyoto, Osaka and Nara; breakfast as Cunard plans to base her permanently·on Caravanserai and Dawn Beach, St. Maar .two .nights in London and 10 on the road; and dinner or lunch daily; deluxe accom the West Coast. Cost of the 13-day cruise is ten. Contact International Travel · Repre full breakfast and dinner daily. Open to all modations; transfers, entrance fees and En $1,589 per person, double, for an inside sentatives, 25 West 39th Street, New York employees and retirees. Tours begin· in glish speaking guides. Departure dates are cabin and $1 '739 for an outside cabin, plus 10018. Phone (800) 223-4077; in New London on May 28, June 25, July 9, 23 and Oct. 14, 28 and November 11, 1983; Feb. port taxes of $45. Contact Interline Repre York, 840-2115. August 7, 20. Contact Interline Represent 3, 17 and March 30, 1984. Contact Inflight sentatives Ltd., 25 West 39th Street, New Greece: TWAers receive a 20% discount atives, Ltd. (IRL), 25 West 39th Street, Tours Inc., 501 Fifth Ave., New York, NY York, NY 10018. Phone (212) 840-6727. New York, NY 10018. Phone (212) 840- 10016. Phone(212)695-6650. year-round on 10 different land tours of 6727. Caribbean. One week at a Caribbean re Athens and Greece and on a one-day Panama Canal. The Cunard Line is offer sort, between April 15 to Decemb~r 15. cruise, as well as on longer cruises offered Inter-Continental Hotels. During July ing discounts of 40-50% on the annual Price range from $199 to $229 per person, April-November. Advance reservations
and August 1 19 Inter-Continental hotels transit of the Panama Canal by the Cunard double or single, includes seven nights, for cruises are recommended. For informa around the world will offer special 60% Princess. The offer is available to all em service charges and t~es, and space avail tion write to Cittam Ltd., P.O. Box 1789, discounts. Participating are the Mayfair in ployees, parents and retirees, and the em able air travel from New York or Miami. ·syntagma, Athens, Greece, or call 3228 London; the Meurice in Paris, the Athe- ployee need not accompany the travel~r. Resorts participating are the Casuarina 373, 3225 483.
6 March 28, 1983 System Timetable
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AOO ICT 1125A 0l~ 296 Tr!JS DEN JFK 111t;fl 045SP 212 331B LAX AOO 0810A 1055A 296 Tr!JS ~ CCHT. STL CCHT. STL CCHT. LAX ~ 0!318A 231 Tr!JS STL 0616A 0905A 390 Tr!JS AOO ' 062SP 091a:' 382 Tr!JS Cl1i 0710A 0915A 3:4 Tr!JS )(67 9JS 0214P 054eP 536 L10 Pl-0< 100a:' 0010A S79 7275 )(6 LAX 060 March 28, 1983 7 I ______j I ,. 1982 Awards of EXcellence Operations Maintenance and Engineering Sales Stephen'Ferro Automation Coordinator, LAX Patricia F. Sinker · Ticket Sales Agent, LAX Flight Operations Clifford W. Baker, Jr. Lead Stores Clerk, CVG Thomas W. Bartram Project Engineer, MCI New York International Daniel E. Bax Sheet Metal Mechanic, MCI Station Services Bill Blakemore Captain Jerry E. Beach Stores Clerk, MCI Donald J. Branham Procurement Specialist, MCI Marc Brecy Customer Service Agent, COG Gordon Jennings First Officer Albert Ciprut · Lead Ramp Service Person, JFK Dwight Kerns Flight Engineer Gene N. Brock' Senior Proj~ct Engineer, MCI Thomas M. Cutshall Metal Mechanic, MCI Lenore Eskridge Secretary,·MKC New York Domestic Henry Gerdes Agent-in-Charge, JFK Forest W.' Darr Lead Systems Technician, MCI Lee Herring - Ramp Service Person, BDL Joe R. Bitar Captiun · Tobie S. Davison Lead Mechanic, MCI Alonza Martin Ramp Service Person, JFK Bill Clegg, Jr. First Officer Lyle L. Eckley Project Engineer, MCI George Reinoso Ramp Service Person, MIA Jim Crosson, Jr. Flight Engineer Donald F. Hansen Inspector, MCI Hubert Ringhausen Ramp Service Person, STL ·Chicago Norman Happy Hangar Mechanic, MCI John Sharp Lead Ramp Service Person, LAS Checker/Dispatcher, JFK Dennis D. Manning Captain Kenneth R. Hickey Lead Systems Technician, ORD Antonio Tedesco Agent-in.,Charge, JFK Terry G. Shepherd First Officer Kenneth M. Hornaday Lead Mechanic, TPA William Temme William C. Weber Flight Engineer A. G. Kilgore Senior Analyst;·MCI Joseph King Production Planner, MCI Cargo Service Kansas City Ruth A. Kosek Fleet Service Helper, LAX Rolf Boer .Customer Service Agent, LAX George W. Hefflinger Captain Howard R. Limbach Hangar & Line Mechanic, JFK Patrick Heslop Lead Customer Service Agent, LON · Steve E. Hubbard First Officer Thomas E. McGuire Mechanic, JFK · Bernard Schoberg Customer Service Agent, BWI Wayne C. Boyd Flight Engineer James A. Moore Lead Mechanic, STL St. Louis William S. Ripka Lead-Mechanic, SFO Robert D. Rafferty Captain William H. Sell Radio Mechanic, MCI Controller Clarence F. Abell, Jr. First Officer Robert K. Slocombe Electro Mechanic, LAX Charles L. Nichols Flight Engineer John F. Stampf Electro Mechanic, JFK Sherri Brown Credit Representative, MKC Roy L. Toombs Lead Mechanic, LAS Jane Cowell Senior Systems Analyst, MKC Los Angeles Larry P. Williams Mechanic-Blade & Vane Shop, MCI Debra Hayes Technical Accountant, MKC James P. Rapattoni Captain Thomas Kiernan Administrator-Computer Systems & Thomas E. Christopher First Officer Operations, MKC David A. Long Flight Engineer Field.Sales & Services Kathy Kirk Systems Analyst, MKC ~ Sheila Lorance Senior Accounting Coordinator, MKC San Francisco Passenger Services Ken Parkes Senior Accounting Specialist, MKC Kenneth 0. Billingsley Captain Wilbur Acheson Passenger Relations Rep., CMH Charles Peterson· Supervisor, MKC Eric F. Walker First Officer .Mary Anderson Passenger Relations Rep. , BOS Dorothy Ralston -Technical Accountant, MKC J. Herb Floyd Flight Engineer Elia Bresci Customer Service Agent, ROM Joanne Stone Systems Analyst,_MKC Robert Cullen Ticket Sales Agent, NYC Krishen Sud Project Engineer, MCI Anastasia Dadou Customer Service Agent, ATH Michael Whalen Senior Systems Analyst, MKC In-Flight Services Marianne Karam Ticket Sales Agent, CAl Fred Baumer . Boston-International Judith Mandel Customer Service Agent, CHI Steve.Brennan New York-Domestic . John McBride Skycap, MKC Winners-at-Large Dorothy Connor New York-International Randolph Ortwein Customer Service Agent, DEN Alice Curran Boston-Domestic Roy Sanders Agent-in-Charge, Air Freight, SFO Lorena R. Atherton Supervisor-Loan Services, · Anne Ellington New York-International Ross Warren Customer Service Ag((nt, SDF Credit Union, MKC Svein Husevold Chicago-International Velma E. Campbell · Supervisor-Files & Archives, Karen Irons Chicago-Domestic Reservations Personnel, MKC Beverlee Minten Los Angeles-International Nathan Chun Reservations Sales Agent, _CHI Sheila Lombard Jr. Staff Assistant, Sales & Services Jane Robinson S First 40·Year Pin at Columbus Cite Award.Winners in Phoenix Maintenance manager Jack Patterson (second from right) is the first Columbus TWAer to. receive a 40-year pin. Jack joined the airline in February, 1943 as a cargo Sales & Services Award of Excellence winners at Phoenix for the second half of i982 agent and has been in Columbus his entire career. Pictured with him at the pin were presented with plaques last month. Pictured (f~;om left): Max Levine, SATO presentation ceremony are (from left) F. J. Moynihan, central region manager-field . manager at Luke & Williams Air Force bases; Phil Boucher, vice president-Western station maintenance; Joe Cooper, staff vice president-maintenance operations·; and region; Charles I. Flory, ramp serviceman, and Jack Ryan, senior vice president . Marty Stripeik, regional maintenance director. personnel & administration .