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Location, incentives helped land new US Airways center.

Publication: Knight-Ridder Tribune Business News
Publication Date: 22-FEB-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Byline: Dan Fitzpatrick

Feb. 22--As politicians hailed US Airways' decision yesterday to build a new flight operations center in Moon, gone were the memories of US Airways' 10,000 local job cuts, the elimination of nearly 400 daily flights and broken promises that nearly destroyed a relationship between the airline and local airport officials.

"I know it's been contentious," Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato said to US Airways President Scott Kirby as the pair stood in front of a ticket counter at Pittsburgh International Airport, where Mr. Kirby announced the coveted $25 million, 600-person project would go to Pittsburgh over Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. But "we have come a long way."

US Airways' painful decision to drastically cut its work force and flights here following a post-9/11 collapse of the U.S. airline industry was a result of Pittsburgh's poorer economic standing relative to...

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