Piedmont Airlines History
In 1931, Piedmont Airlines founder Richard A. Henson, who was a pioneer in the field of aviation, began an operation as Henson Aviation in Maryland. In 1962, the airline scheduled a passenger service in which people commuted between Washington and Hagerstown (Borenstein, 1992). Since this period, the firm has grown to nations and regional airlines. Henson Aviation joined with Allegheny Airlines in the year 1967 that dominates the industry worldwide (Piedmont). After a while, the route structure was more developed after Henson replaced Allegheny services at Maryland.
The company used to have Boeing 737, and 767 that had a high carrying capacity compared to other planes. There were around one million passengers who operated on the routes. After two years the airline purchased a Dash seven aircraft, which had a capacity of carrying 50 passengers. Air transport named the Henson as the best regional airline of the year. In the 1980s, there was a change whereby, there was the addition of new equipment, which transformed the airline into the modern carrier. The first significant change occurred when Piedmont decided to purchase the Henson airline. The company
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was named Henson the Piedmont airline. In the following year, they bought a Dash 8 aircraft this made the company be ranked among the top world largest operator, passenger friendly, and highly efficient aircraft. By the end of 1987, the structure touched many cities. In 1989, Piedmont grew into USAir, and the planes were repainted to bear that name of which the new identity was USAir Express. Later on, Henson was renamed to Piedmont Airlines to retain the identity of the USAir groups. There was an increase in airlines and customer service areas in the 1990s.
The increase was dramatically since it was unexpected. In 1994, there was the most dramatic move when USAir allowed the express carriers to handle their flights and stations at the six major hubs in the East. The airline company took over the ground operations at Washington National and Tampa and Baltimore. It led to their employee growth up to more than 1700. There are also many changes that have occurred at their customer service locations, crew bases and maintenance bases. In the late 2000s, Piedmont experienced a rapid increase in growth. Many airlines in the same period were shrinking their workforce while Piedmont customer service is expanded to include multiple locations in Alaska and western United
States. Piedmont has continued to lead in the Henson tradition way for regional airlines. It was the first company to have a complete program for pilot training. Piedmont was also the first airline company to be certified for use of the TCAS anti-collision systems (Smith, Grimm, Gannon, & Chen, 1991). Piedmont's parent company that is US Airways merged with American Airlines in 2013 to create the world’s largest airline. Many opportunities for the Piedmont group were created ranging from routes to customer service locations and fleet size. Last year American signed a contract with Piedmont where it will add twenty Embraer 145 from the wholly owned company Envoy Air.
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