ATA Backs Away From Gate

October 27, 2004 By David Burn

from Crain’s Chicago Business: ATA Airlines has agreed to turn over its Midway Airport operations to Air Tran Airways Inc. for $87.5 million as part of its restructuring and filing for Bankruptcy Court protection Tuesday.
Subject to approval by the city of Chicago and the Bankruptcy Court, AirTran will assume ATA’s flight operations, gate leases and routes at Midway, as well as arrival and departure slots at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the Indianapolis-based carrier announced.

AirTran it is, then.

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About David Burn

I wrote my first ad for a local political candidate when I was 17. She went on to win her race, and I felt the power of persuasive copy for the first time. Starting in Portland in 1995, I worked my way across the country as a copywriter and eventually became a content director making media products for big packaged goods brands. I returned to Oregon in 2008, and now I focus on building brands for companies that matter, including this one.