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Show Western Airlines contributes free travel to help promote business in Utah Western Airlines has pledged a quarter of a million dollars in free air travel to help build Utah business and has formed a Salt Lake City committee to oversee its involvement. involve-ment. "The concept of business bringing business to Utah makes sense to us," Western Airlines Chairman Lawrence H. Lee said in a news release. He said that Salt Lake City and Utah, in general, is a major growth area. Western's plan for building Utah business involves a five-point program, pro-gram, including involvement in the arts, .health care, tourism and conventions, con-ventions, economic development and skiing. The airline also is joining the Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce's newly formed committee of 100, which promotes Utah business. "Western is joining the efforts of the Committee of 100 and the Utah Department of Community and Economic Development by matching match-ing in travel dollars on Western's system whatever the Committee of 100 raises from private businesses, up to $250,000," Less said. Overseeing Western's Utah efforts will be Spencer Eccles, president and chief executive officer of First Security Corp., Emmanuel Floor, president of Triad Properties, and University of Utah President Dr. Chase Peterson. They will serve on an executive committee to assist Lee in the selection of members of the Help Utah Business Council. The council will review Western's efforts under all of its involvement programs. pro-grams. Meeting organizers from around the nation, travel agents and journalists jour-nalists have visited Utah as a result of Western's contributions, Lee said. In addition, the airline provided transportation across the country for Ski Utah promoters to help sell skiing here. ' Ski Utah films will be shown aboard Western's DC-10 flights again this winter season, he added. Western Airlines has served Utah since 1926. The airline initiated a transportation hub at the Salt Lake City International Airport in 1982 and currently operates 83 daily departures to 38 nonstop destinations. destina-tions. Western now employs 2,100 Utahns and has a monthly payroll of nearly $4 million in the state. |