Friday, August 24, 2012

Compass Airlines cuts ribbon on Louisville maintenance facility - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The subsidiary opened the three-bay maintenance facility in Januarg but held off on the ribbonj cutting until key personnelwere hired, and they “goty a little airplane grease under their Compass president Tim Campbell said durinv a news conference. Compass’ 70 employeed maintain the airline’s fleet of 36 Embraere 175 76-seat jets. which was founded in 2006 as a subsidiaryt of NorthwestAirlines Inc., was acquirex by Delta as part of the Atlanta-based carrier’s merger with Northwest in Octobeer 2008.
The jets previously had been servicedd bya third-party aircraft maintenance company, Campbell Compass’ Louisville International Airport located at 5101 Crittenden Drive, consists of 42,720 square feet of aircrafr hangar space, 11,416 square feet of office, shop and storager space, an 80,601-square-foot concrete apron and 33,4890 square feet of parking and roadways. At the news Chantilly, Va.-based Compass showed off its first jet paintedf in theDelta colors. The rest of its fleet will be converte d from Northwest Airlines colors over thenext year, Campbelkl said. At the news conference, Kentucky Gov.
Stevs Beshear said the Compass investment, includinhg its $3 million annual payroll, “isz a tremendous economic achievement in the mids t of some pretty tougheconomidc times.” In August 2007, the board granted the airlinre preliminary approval for $2 million in state tax incentives for up to 10

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