=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/n/a/2005/11/01/financial/= f123120S17.DTL --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, November 1, 2005 (AP) ATA to End Service To, From Indianapolis (11-01) 14:17 PST INDIANAPOLIS, (AP) -- Bankrupt carrier ATA Airlines announced Tuesday it was ending all flights to and from Indianapolis because of financial problems and increased competition. "The support we have received from the people of Indianapolis made this decision extremely difficult," said John Denison, chief executive and president of ATA Holdings Corp., which owns the carrier and ATA Charter. All ATA Airlines flights to and from Indianapolis International Airport will end Jan. 10. The carrier is also ending service to Denver and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The airline will still have 64 departures each day throughout its system, or about half the daily departures now. The carrier is also maintaining its 10-month-old code-sharing agreement with Southwest Airlines to about 50 cities. The deal allows passengers on one airline to fly to destinations served by the other. ATA Holdings said it would keep its headquarters in Indianapolis, where = it was founded 32 years ago, and will continue to lease office space at the airport. The company said it was too early to say how many jobs would be affected by the route reductions. ATA Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October 2004. It has cut more than 3,000 jobs since it began downsizing from a work force of 7,800 people two years ago. ATA Airlines had been the busiest at the Indianapolis airport, with 41 daily flights and 22 percent of all passengers, before dropping to just four daily flights since its bankruptcy filing. Company executives said Tuesday's announcements may help it emerge from bankruptcy by early 2006. -------------------------------------------------= --------------------- Copyright 2005 AP