First Aloha Airlines, now ATA

[yby1]

ATA has discontinued operations.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_bi_ge/ata_bankruptcy;_ylt=Au9PipfZCF4zOnbHUpWjmZ6s0NUE

http://www.ata.com/

I hope no one here had a flight booked with them.

I knew a couple of people that had flights booked with Aloha and are fighting to try to get their money back. One was smart and paid with a credit card, the other person probably lost their money forever.

http://www.alohaairlines.com/home/home.php

[pixiecat]

I've been trying to fix my flights (for June trip to HI) all morning. Getting money back through credit card was easy. But new flights are $$$$!!! And we have no choice b/c SIL is getting married, so it's not like we can just cancel the trip.

I re-booked in a hurry to make sure that we got seats. But then found better flights, on hold to see what I can do to fix them.

MIL tells me that both Aloha and ATA are owned by American. I guess I should have seen it coming when Aloha went down a few days ago...

[linekelei]

pixiecat-Not sure where in California you are flying from, but we were able to find direct flights out of LAX on United to Hawaii (Maui) in May which were only $200 more than our original Aloha airline flights out of OC. We re-booked them ourselves, however. It was more expensive, but we were just glad to get a direct flight that wasn't $2000 per person.

We found getting the money back from the credit card company was easy, too. Thank goodness I didn't pay cash for them!

[pixiecat]

I ended up using my United miles (saver, so not a bad deal). I just needed to get it done & tickets were going up every minute. This has caused me so much stress this morning! Our return flight has TWO stops! That should be fun with a 2-year old...

I need to keep it in perspective.

[linekelei]

That's terrible! Fortunately, we were able to get direct flights.

[ejs]

MIL tells me that both Aloha and ATA are owned by American.
That's not true.

[pixiecat]

That's not true.
Well, that doesn't surprise me in the slightest. She is usually full of shit.

[imagirliegirl]

Skybus:Another One Bites the Dust (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/04/04/airlines.bankruptcy/index.html)

(CNN) -- Skybus Airlines announced Friday it is shutting down its passenger flights -- becoming the third airline this week to cease operations.

Skybus said all flights Friday would be completed; passengers with reservations for Saturday and beyond were told to seek refunds from their credit card companies.

[PinkMartini]

Wow, I had no idea airlines were shutting down :eek: No wonder airplane tickets are so damn high now....

[kari]

:( Yea, I lost my free flight to Kauai with rapid rewards thru Southwest. :(
My mom's flight, however, we are waiting to hear what SW is going to do for us - refund or find us another flight. But that means I have to buy my flight. Boo! :(

[thedoorchick]

And today, Frontier.

Maybe we should change the thread title to "Airlines in Bankruptcy" :rolleyes:

I'm supposed to fly American on an MD-80 next week so I pray their house is in order by then.

[jennylou]

Frontier is supposed to still operate at least.....not leave passengers stranded and sol in some cases.

[thedoorchick]

Right, their situation is a little different.

I actually flew Frontier for the first time a couple of weeks ago - Not too shabby of an experience. And I flew Midwest just this week. It's interesting to get to compare different carriers because I usually fly only AA. Their customer service sucks, really, but their strength is in their network - They go everywhere, all the time. And where I live, I don't have a ton of other options.

[jennylou]

Frontier flies out of Akron, so I usually price quote them. Sometimes they're close, but it's usually not close enough to be worth the extra drive time. Still, I've heard good things about them, so I always keep them in the back of my mind.

[imagirliegirl]

Holy cow! I hope they stay in operation. I love Frontier.