Comments on: ATA Shuts Down Immediately

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:49:39 +0000

Hmm…not sure about the winds aloft between HNL-NRT. Very well could be the case that they might prevent regular 757 service, although I can’t imagine them being worse than the North Atlantic.

By: The Cranky Flier » An ATA Obituary

The Cranky Flier » An ATA Obituary — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:00:17 +0000

[...] writing an obituary back then, and really, I was. Combine that with my brief heads up yesterday on ATA’s bankruptcy filing and the excellent comments that followed, and there’s not really much left to say, but of [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:36:20 +0000

Next one: Alitalia :-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/04/cnitaly104.xml

By: Yo

Yo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:49:57 +0000

I meant 180 ETOPS. LOL!

And I left out UA as a LAX-HNL carrier (duh!)

What about the winds aloft between HNL and NRT? I thought those were really nasty, would that affect the flight?

By: Akit

Akit — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:15:30 +0000

At least there won’t be anymore confusion between ATA and Air Tran Airways.

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:05:29 +0000

Hmm, a better question is how many of ATA’s fleet will make it into Global Aero Logistics’s other airlines… Some of the DC-10s apparently are already operated by World Airways..

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:37:06 +0000

The current CEO of ATA’s parent co., Global Aero Logistics, is John Denison. He’s an ex-CFO & ex-EVP at Southwest Airlines and ex-CEO of ATA. His former positions @ Southwest should mean he works well with current Southwest CEO Gary Kelly. (Kelly was Southwest CFO under John Denison during Denison’s tenure as SW Exec VP.) I would look for Southwest to benefit from ATA’s demise.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:14:37 +0000

Actually, HNL-NRT is shorter than the 757 flights to Europe that Continental operates from CLE.

By: Nicholas Barnard

Nicholas Barnard — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:06:02 +0000

18 minute ETOPS? Yes, planes aren’t allowed outside of Seattle, DFW, DC, NYC, and other metro areas with two airports. :-p

Perhaps 180 minute ETOPS is what you intended…

Ahh, the joy of typos.. (No hard feelings Yo, I just couldn’t resist…)

By: Yo

Yo — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:59:09 +0000

There are already too many carriers doing LAX-HNL, (CO, NW, DL, HA, AA. I don’t think a 757 ETOPS can do HNL-NRT, that is a long flight for twin engine 18 minute ETOPS, and Midway Island isn’t open for emergency landings any more.