Archive for 'ATA'
The Long Long Roundup
We’ve been very behind lately. We keep saying we’ll catch up, but life happens. We are committed to providing the best in airline news and commentary we possibly can, but we do have day jobs, of course.
Delta received preliminary approval to fly from New York’s JFK Airport to Bogota, Columbia.
Spirit Airlines announced starting May 8th, [...]
Posted: March 9th, 2008 under ATA, AirTran Airways, American Airlines, Baltimore-Washington - Thurgood Marshall International, Chicago - Midway Airport, Cleveland - Hopkins Airport, Continental Airlines, Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, JetBlue Airways, London - Heathrow Airport, New York - John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark - Liberty Airport, News, Northwest Airlines, Ryanair, Service Roundup, Skybus, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Westjet.
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Service Ends and Service Begins
ATA will be ending all flights to Washington-National and New York’s LaGuardia Airport by January 7th. The aircraft will be redeployed on charter routes until their planned 2009 international expansion. Not only will this be a significant reduction in ATA’s East Coast operations, as well as denying Southwest’s opportunity to codeshare on these flights into [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2007 under ATA, JetBlue Airways, Service Roundup.
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Roundup
There’s a lot to catch up on…
Qantas is expanding its flight schedule to the United States, effective March 2008, bringing total flights to 46 flights per week. The increased schedule includes daily service between Los Angeles and Brisbane effective March 27th; Increasing to 17 weekly flights between Los Angeles and Sydney, effective March 30th; increasing [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under ATA, AirTran Airways, Airbus, American Airlines, Bombardier, British Airways, Chicago - O'Hare Airport, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Denver International Airport, Embraer, Frequent Flyers, In-Flight, JetBlue Airways, Los Angeles International Airport, Midwest Airlines, Philadelphia International Airport, Qantas, Service Roundup, Southwest Airlines, U.S. Helicopter, US Airways, United Airlines, Washington DC - Dulles International Airport, Westjet.
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Roundup
ATA announced last week that it would acquire World Air Holdings, which owns charter carriers World Airways and North American Airlines. North American, based at JFK, offers some regularly scheduled service. World Air Holdings did not acquire North American that long ago itself. The airlines would be operated as three separate airlines under one corporate [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2007 under ATA, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, News, Service Roundup, Skybus, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
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Service Roundup
ATA will be adding service from Chicago-Midway to Oakland and Ontario, effective May 11th.
ATA will also add service three times per week from Oakland to Kona, Hawaii effective June 14th. On June 15th, they will begin service four times weekly from Oakland to Lihui, Hawaii and daily nonstop service from Las Vegas to Maui, Hawaii.
Bloomberg [...]
Posted: March 10th, 2007 under ATA, American Airlines, Chicago - Midway Airport, Service Roundup.
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Northwest to sell DC-10s to ATA
Today in the Sky reports that Northwest has reached a deal to sell seven of its DC-10s to ATA Airlines. Northwest has replaced its DC-10s in favor of more efficient aircraft and is looking at slowly doing the same with its fleet of DC9s.
ATA is likely to use them for its charter operations, most likely [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2006 under ATA, News, Northwest Airlines.
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