Flyers "Dursted" by ATA

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Snaxx · #1 Post by **Snaxx** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:44 pm

I searched and was surprised this story wasn't posted yet. The airline with a WWTBAM lifeline name suddenly went out of business earlier today, leaving flyers stranded.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.asp ... e7ed9872eb

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TheConfessor · #2 Post by **TheConfessor** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:36 pm

I heard there are plans to sell off the assets to a private equity group that will relaunch as 50/50 Airlines.

ulysses5019 · #3 Post by **ulysses5019** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:39 pm

I heard there are plans to sell off the assets to a private equity group that will relaunch as 50/50 Airlines.

Are these the odds of passengers reaching their destination safely?

TheCalvinator24 · #4 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:12 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:
I heard there are plans to sell off the assets to a private equity group that will relaunch as 50/50 Airlines.
Are these the odds of passengers reaching their destination safely?

Those are better odds than you get with Delta.

themanintheseersuckersuit · #5 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:36 am

http://www.airlineinformation.org/confe ... dance.html

There is a list of airlines here with a PAF listed.

MarleysGh0st · #6 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:18 am

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote: There is a list of airlines here with a PAF listed.

But you only get 30 seconds to try to reach your destination.

kayrharris · #7 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:52 am

Yikes don't say that. I am waiting to board a delta plane right now!

Bob Juch · #8 Post by **Bob Juch** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:02 am

Just stay off Bob Evans's private jet.

Spoiler

The one that had its landing gear collapse at JFK yesterday.

kayrharris · #9 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:12 am

1 hour getting through security and already 459unite delay due to fog!

Bob Juch · #10 Post by **Bob Juch** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:29 am

kayrharris wrote:1 hour getting through security and already 459unite delay due to fog!

How many?!

Where are you flying to?

marrymeflyfree · #11 Post by **marrymeflyfree** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:03 am

Aloha and Champion air have also stopped flying in the last week.

Continental bought a few of ATA's 757's a couple of years ago, and it looks like we might get some more of them now.

kayrharris · #12 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:59 pm

Sorry about that typo.

I was typing from a Blackberry and they were just telling everyone to turn the damn things off. Plus the font is tiny and hard to read ( well, it is at my age anyway!).

We finally got here. I have a migraine and forgot my meds. It's now 6PM and I'm fighting it. Lord, I hope it goes away soon.

Buffacuse · #13 Post by **Buffacuse** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:08 pm

This one was particularly brutal. Employees had less than one day's notice, and flyers showed up to ticket counters to find no one there. I often wonder in these about people who scrape together some money for a once in a lifetime trip somewhere and wind up getting hosed--I literally saw one bride still in her wedding gown at an abandoned ATA counter crying on the news.

I understand they had to fold--but they didn't just figure this out overnight. Shame on them for the way they did this to their own people and the thousands who were nailed.

marrymeflyfree · #14 Post by **marrymeflyfree** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:42 pm

Buffacuse wrote: I understand they had to fold--but they didn't just figure this out overnight. Shame on them for the way they did this to their own people and the thousands who were nailed.

ATA had ceased nearly all of their commercial flying, but they still did a TON of military charters. I heard that they lost two huge military contracts, and decided to cease operations immediately after that news came down.

Speaking of charter flying....I also heard that United Airlines was doing a charter for the White House press corps. When UAL grounded their 777's the other day in the latest maintenance snafu, the whole group got delayed with the plane in Bucharest. Whoops.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #15 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:48 am

My friend is a travel agent and she was very busy rescheduling flights for all of her clients when ATA went out of business.