ATA Airlines (USA)
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| IATA code : | TZ |
| ICAO code : | AMT |
| Call sign : | AmTran |
| Founding: | 1973 |
| Operation stopped: | 2008 |
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Indianapolis , United States
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| Fleet size: | 30th |
| Aims: | USA, Mexico and Europe |
| ATA Airlines ceased operations in 2008. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
ATA Airlines , American Trans Air until 2003 , was an American airline based in Indianapolis , which ceased all activities on April 2, 2008.
history
The Ambassadair Travel Club was founded in 1972 and began flight operations with a Boeing 720 . American Trans Air was founded as a charter airline in 1973. It was not until 1981 that it received the line license and purchased the Boeing 707 . Indianapolis initially served as the central hub. Initially, however, only charter flights continued. In 1985, several Lockheed L-1011 "TriStar" were added to the fleet. During the Gulf War of 1991, 108,000 US soldiers were transported to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Storm . The first scheduled flight was offered in 1992. In 2003 the company name was changed to "ATA Airline Inc.". Furthermore, North American Airlines carried out troop flights on behalf of the United States Department of Defense . In October 2004, the parent company, ATA Holdings Corp., filed for bankruptcy protection under US law (" Chapter 11 "). After Matlin Patterson and other lenders invested $ 100 million to buy ATA Holdings, ATA Airlines was privatized. For this reason ATA was able to end the bankruptcy protection on February 28, 2006.
On April 5, 2007, the parent company ATA Holdings (now Global Aero Logistics) bought the North American airlines North American Airlines and World Airways from World Air Holdings.
On April 2, 2008, bankruptcy protection under US law (“Chapter 11”) was again applied for and as a result, flight operations were completely suspended. The company attributed this development to the loss of an important contract in the military charter business.
aims
ATA recently served 28 destinations, almost exclusively in national traffic. Internationally only a few destinations in Mexico were served, but also Leipzig / Halle as part of military charter. ATA's home airport was Chicago Midway Airport . Other American destinations were flown to in code- sharing cooperation with Southwest Airlines .
fleet
Before flight operations ceased, the ATA fleet consisted of 28 aircraft as of March 2008:
- 12 Boeing 737-800 (first delivery on June 29, 2001)
- 6 Boeing 757-200 (first delivery on September 26, 1995)
- 4 Boeing 757-300 (first delivery on August 4, 2001)
- 2 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ( taken over by the British Royal Air Force after bankruptcy )
- 6 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ata.com (as of April 3, 2008)
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - ATA Airlines' fleet ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on March 4, 2008
Web links
- Web presence of the ATA Airlines (English)