What exactly do you need to know?

Yes, there are employee benefit programs. Most are individually specific to Piedmont Airlines, i.e. you do not have the same health benefits or profit sharing that US Airways mainline has. There are also employee benefits specific to the Piedmont pilot group that are different from the other employee groups at Piedmont, i.e. the pilots 401k retirement plan is not "company wide" and flight attendants or gate agents have their own retirement plan benefit.

The travel program can be quite complex to discuss, but that is because it is the entire US Airways Group travel program and not limited to just Piedmont. Basically, as the employee (including spouse and children) you have free, unlimited space available travel on US Airways mainline and US Airways Express. Travel priority is determined by placing all Piedmont, PSA, and US Airways mainline active employees into the "S3" category. Within this category, priority is then further refined by date of hire with the more senior employee having higher priority. US Airways Express employees from non-wholly owned carriers (other than Piedmont and PSA) travel at a S4 priority. So even on your first day, you would have a higher travel priority on US Airways mainline, than any employee of the other US Airways Express carriers: Republic, Air Wisconsin, Mesa, Colgan, Trans States, etc.

When available, you can travel in first class by paying an upgrade fee. You can travel internationally for no additional cost, just pay the international taxes. You can purchase confirmed seating on US Airways for 20% off the normal fare. Your parents can travel based on a charge per flight segment (domestic or international). You get 8 "buddy passes" for reduced rate travel on US Airways for friends or more distant relatives. A boyfriend/girlfriend/domestic partner can fly as a travel companion at the cost of imputed income added to your paystub. Six times a year you can change your priority to S1 and move to the top of the standby list. We also participate in the ID90/95 and ZED types of travel programs with just about every other well known airline out there.