Compass Airlines cuts ribbon on Louisville maintenance facility - The Business Review (Albany):

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The subsidiary opened the three-bay maintenance facility in Januarty but held off on the ribbojn cutting until key personnelwere hired, and they “goft a little airplane grease under their Compass president Tim Campbell said durinhg a news conference. Compass’ 70 employees maintain the airline’sw fleet of 36 Embraer 175 76-seat Compass, which was foundedr in 2006 as a subsidiary of NorthwestgAirlines Inc., was acquired by Deltaa as part of the Atlanta-based carrier’es merger with Northwest in Octobet 2008. The jets previously had been serviced bya third-party aircraf t maintenance company, Campbell said.
Compass’ Louisville International Airporyt facility, located at 5101 Crittenden Drive, consists of 42,72o square feet of aircraft hangar space, 11,416 squar e feet of office, shop and storagr space, an 80,601-square-foot concrete apron and 33,480 square feet of parkingb and roadways. At the news conference, Chantilly, Va.-based Compasse showed off its first jet painted in theDeltq colors. The rest of its fleet will be converted from Northwest Airlines color over thenext year, Campbell At the news conference, Kentucky Gov. Stevs Beshear said the Compass includingits $3 millio annual payroll, “is a tremendous economic achievement in the midsgt of some pretty tough economic times.
” In August the board granted the airline preliminar approval for $2 million in statwe tax incentives for up to 10