Bob Culver, County Executive of Wicomico County, along with Steve Farrow, CEO of Piedmont Airlines, announce the expansion of Piedmont’s offices into the David J. Ward terminal building. The offices, which were renovated by Piedmont, will house administrative staff plus the Ground Support Equipment staff.
Piedmont Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines, will receive its first Embraer 145 regional jet in October, and will start using regional jets on select routes out of Philadelphia in early 2016.
“I am very excited about Piedmont’s expansion,” County Executive Culver said. “Piedmont is a great partner in providing passenger service to the Salisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport. We are looking forward to the new jets and the new jobs these regional jets will bring.”
“Piedmont employs more than 400 people in Wicomico County, and that number is increasing,” said Steve Farrow, Piedmont Airlines CEO. “The expansion into the old terminal building gives us the space we need immediately, and the opportunity to continue to grow as we increase our fleet over the next several years.
Piedmont Airlines, headquartered in Salisbury, Maryland, is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group. Piedmont employees 6500 aviation professionals in more than 80 locations in the United States. Piedmont operates a fleet of 37 deHavilland Dash 8 turboprops and will expand its fleet to include 20 Embraer 145 regional jets in 2016.
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They're still a sucky company 2 work for. Left them 4 greener pastures long ago.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bob!
ReplyDeleteAnd yet they are going to fly them from Salisbury to Philly empty while we're still stuck flying turbo-props for 90 minutes to Charlotte, when the jet would be there in 35 minutes.
ReplyDeleteWhy has Wicomico County pitched in money for runway expansion, etc and we're not getting any benefit from doing so?
10:44 sounds like somebody that failed a drug test.
ReplyDeleteDid my time at pdt and got out. Actually had a pretty good time when I was there!
ReplyDeletedrive to bwi save urself the grief!
ReplyDeleteMoney is WAY behind for what we do for living in this area. Can you pay a 40-200k student loan bill on 22k a year?
ReplyDeleteWhy does the county continue to allow them to not pay landing fees to them? This is a real screwing to the taxpayers.
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