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State Helps Land $25M US Airways Center

PITTSBURGH-With $11 million in incentives, Pittsburgh International beats out proposals from Phoenix and Charlotte, NC for the carrier's 60,000-sf control center.

By Marita Thomas | Updated on February 22, 2007

PITTSBURGH-US Airways Inc. has selected a 10-acre site at Pittsburgh International Airport for its new $25-million, 60,000-sf flight operations control center. The decision follows intense competition from Phoenix and Charlotte, NC, which began in summer 2006 when, following its merger with America West, the carrier asked all three locations to bid for the project.

The airline has an operations center here and, through a merger, acquired America West’s center in Phoenix. Charlotte is the Tempe, AZ-based air carrier’s largest hub, and it has several support, flight training and maintenance facilities there. While maintaining some existing operational functions in Phoenix and flight crew training in Charlotte, it plans to break ground for the new Pittsburgh facility later this year and become operational in early 2009.

The center will handle flight dispatch, maintenance operations control, crew scheduling, customer service operations, engineering groups and administrative support. The project ensures the retention of 450 jobs here and the addition of approximately 150 more.

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