THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, December 13, 1994 TAG: 9412130249
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
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American Eagle Airlines will stop flying out of Norfolk International Airport after the holidays, a spokesman said Monday. American Eagle has provided six daily commuter flights to Raleigh/Durham.
A specific date has not been set yet for the last commuter flight, but American Eagle will cancel the flights in early January.
The cancellations are a result of American Eagle pulling out of American Airlines' Raleigh/Durham hub entirely. American Airlines will continue to offer three daily jet flights to its Dallas/Fort Worth hub. American employs less than 20 people at the Norfolk airport and some may lose their jobs as a result of the pullout, the spokesman said. (Staff) Coal pier to reopen by next Monday
Repairs to the fire-damaged ship loader at Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Pier 6 coal terminal should be completed by Dec. 19, a spokesman said Monday.
Crews are working around the clock to repair the damage from the Dec. 9 fire. The cause of the fire was traced to a bearing failure, the same cause as a fire on the terminal's other loader in February 1993.
Any delays in loading coal for export caused by the loader's downtime should be made up by the end of the month, the spokesman said. (Staff) New manager to take over Ford assembly plant
Norfolk Assembly Plant Manager William W. Strickland will retire Jan. 1 and be replaced by William E. Boggs, Ford Motor Co. announced Monday.
Boggs is currently manufacturing manager of a Ford assembly plant in Avon Lake, Ohio. He joined Ford in 1987 as an area manager at its Michigan Truck Plant.
After that, he was a manager at assembly plants in Edison, N.J., and Lorain, Ohio. Strickland has been with Ford more than 30 years.
He began in 1961 as a supervisor in an assembly plant in Atlanta.
Strickland was appointed Norfolk plant manager in 1990. In four years, Strickland has overseen several milestones, including the completion of a paint facility, a new body shop and the assembly plant's 5 millionth unit. (Staff) SCC approves broader calling territory
The State Corporation Commission said it gave final approval to Bell Atlantic-Virginia's plan to add the Eastern Shore community of Cape Charles to the local calling area of its customers in Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach. Calls between Cape Charles and the three South Hampton Roads communities will now be toll-free. However, in exchange for the greater local calling area, Cape Charles phone customers face increases in basic monthly rates. Flat-rate service charges will go up $4.21 a month for residences and $22.19 a month for businesses. Bell Atlantic said it plans to make the changes during the first quarter of 1995. (Staff) Peninsula shipyard forms trade group
Newport News Shipbuilding and five other large U.S. shipyards have formed their own trade group called the American Shipbuilding Association. The six shipyards quit the Shipbuilders Council of America this year over a policy difference on subsidies that would help them relearn commercial ship construction and compete with foreign builders. The shipyards in the new association are Newport News Shipbuilding, Bath Iron Works of Maine, Ingalls Shipbuilding of Mississippi, Electric Boat of Connecticut, National Steel and Shipbuilding of California and Avondale Shipyard of Louisiana. These yards primarily build Navy vessels and are trying to break into the commercial market. The new group is expected to lobby hard for government contracts and subsidies to preserve a U.S. naval shipbuilding capacity. (Staff & wire reports) Circuit City to expand CarMax experiment
Circuit City Stores Inc. appears to be moving ahead with its used car business. The Richmond-based electronics chain opened its first CarMax in Henrico County last year, added another dealership in Raleigh, N.C., last month and has two sites under construction in the Atlanta suburbs. The company recently bought 34 acres in an industrial complex in Winter Garden, Fla., but hasn't announced any plans for it. Circuit City spokeswoman Ann Collier said the chain has not necessarily decided whether to open more sites. Circuit City had applied for zoning changes to build a CarMax in Norfolk, but withdrew the application at the last minute. (Associated Press) by CNB