ASA... err i mean Atlantic Southest....

[enuffalready]

Now what? big announcement... sooooooo, whats next?

 

[Tarzan]

Brad will shave his mustache off at the A Tech next Friday. Bring your family and friends for the big event.

 

[COOPERVANE]

New blue juice vendor to be announced. Balloons for the kids!!

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Going from lightly salted to roasted peanuts. Announcement this Friday.

 

[IFLYASA]

Friday's Big Announcement

"ASA will fly into a New State one mustache at a time"

 

[johnsonrod]

HUGE Announcement: ASA gate agents will finally be trained to provide good customer service.

 

[sayrejm]

Just gonna put this out there for the masses out there.... ASA does not have gate agents... just saying (unless that was flame. if so, someone remove the hook from my mouth please)

 

[sayrejm]

Hey maybe that will be the announcement... we are getting gate agents!

 

[boctal]

HUGE Announcement: ASA gate agents will finally be trained to provide good customer service.

Since when does Atlantic Southeast have any gate agents? Delta has been handling that for some time now, except for a select few outstations.

 

[Metro752]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:

UNCLE RICO BECOMES AN OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF FLIGHTINFO punto COM!

btw, i am still not getting any of these sweet emails wtf

IT dept stinks!

 

[Gulf-front]

It's funny, not one news outlet talked about "50/500/50" or "Super Regional"!

I guess they do not like red coolaid. : )

 

[sayrejm]

Oh no! He used creative swearing!!!! We're all gonna die!!!!

 

[SPDBRD747400]

No no no!!! The "Big Announcement" is:

MESA SUCKS!

 

[MarineGrunt]

It's funny, not one news outlet talked about "50/500/50" or "Super Regional"!

I guess they do not like red coolaid. : )

I haven't seen/heard anything related to 500 airplanes or anything mentioned about a "super-regional" anywhere on any official form of company communication. The ONLY place I've seen/heard of it is on this website. So unless someone can produce evidence proving otherwise, I say you guys all got duped by someone who just made it up...

 

[79%N1]

Our new vision:
Atlantic Southeast Airlines is committed to connecting more people, more often, to the places they love by becoming the worlds’ first super regional airline that: <li type="disc"> Flies to 50 states. <li type="disc"> Operates 500 aircraft. <li type="disc"> Carries 50 million passengers per year
Taken right off the Company website. Also, both produced video's on the ourasa website say's these statements numerous times. If you are an ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST airlines employee I am stupified that you have not seen this.

 

[Abernathy]

I haven't seen/heard anything related to 500 airplanes or anything mentioned about a "super-regional" anywhere on any official form of company communication. The ONLY place I've seen/heard of it is on this website. So unless someone can produce evidence proving otherwise, I say you guys all got duped by someone who just made it up...

It was in an official memo in your e-mail box, through a link on the front page of ourasa in huge letters, and I'm pretty sure it was announced at the get together this past week.

 

[SkyNation]

MarineGrunt,

thought you worked for SkyWest?

 

[MarineGrunt]

MarineGrunt,

thought you worked for SkyWest?

Yeah, I do.... thought this was an "Inc" thing and we might have at least heard a blip of it on our side, or at least it being posted in a press release somewhere.... what evs.... Been on mil leave for over a year, so I'm pretty much in the dark on this stuff.

 

[Metro752]

Where can I get a litre of cola?

 

[ASA_Aviator]

Yeah, I do.... thought this was an "Inc" thing and we might have at least heard a blip of it on our side, or at least it being posted in a press release somewhere.... what evs.... Been on mil leave for over a year, so I'm pretty much in the dark on this stuff.

This isn't an "Inc." thing. It is an ASA thing. The 500 aircraft "vision" is for ASA alone. Lofty goal, admittedly, but that is the goal.


Anyway, if you'd like to read about it from the site directly, go to:

http://www.flyasa.com/prod/about/

Atlantic Southeast Airlines will connect more people, more often, to the places they love, by becoming the world’s first super regional airline that:

Flies to 50 states.
Operates 500 aircraft.
Carrying 50 million passengers a year.

 

[CX880]

Asa folk, can we at least get into an agreement that for forums sake, we call it ASA instead of Atlantic Southwest Airlines? I mean there so much we can text on our standard 9 number cell phones pads. I can't afford those stupid phones with my salary that has an actual keyboard.

 

[XPOO]

This isn't an "Inc." thing. It is an ASA thing. The 500 aircraft "vision" is for ASA alone. Lofty goal, admittedly, but that is the goal.

Seeing as SkyWest had rougly twice the amount of aircraft that ASA does, somewhere near 300, and that they have hubs in LAX, SFO, PDX, SEA, SLC, DEN, MSP, MKE, and ORD, wouldn't it stand to reason that SkyWest has the better chance at becoming the world's first "super regional"? Jus' sayin'.

 

[WalterSobchak]

Combined SKW/ASQ Fleet: 456

Awful close to that 500.

 

[Tarzan]

Seeing as SkyWest had rougly twice the amount of aircraft that ASA does, somewhere near 300, and that they have hubs in LAX, SFO, PDX, SEA, SLC, DEN, MSP, MKE, and ORD, wouldn't it stand to reason that SkyWest has the better chance at becoming the world's first "super regional"? Jus' sayin'.

Good greif. Get over the penis envy already. They are just repeating what BH said in front of the crowd. Direct from the ASA website:
“Atlantic Southeast Airlines is committed to connecting more people, more often, to the places they love, by becoming the world’s first super regional airline that: - Flies to 50 states - Operates 500 aircraft
- Carries 50 million people”


And so what if ASA grows some while SKW doesn't. You'll live just like we did.

 

[Tarzan]

Good grief. Get over the penis envy already. We are only saying what is on the ASA website!
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And so what if ASA grows some while SKW doesn't. You'll live just like we did.

 

[COOPERVANE]

Get-it-done....clap, clap, clap!!!

 

[BWatz]

Get-it-done....clap, clap, clap!!!

Nice.

 

[TOOL CRIB]

This just in, ASA to buy Skywest!

 

[boctal]

Combined SKW/ASQ Fleet: 456

Awful close to that 500.

Once again...this is not a combined number, it's Atlantic Southeast only.

 

[79%N1]

After chewing on this for awhile, I feel that it is pretty disingenuous of ASa management to make bold, unfounded, outlandish statements like this.. It is one thing to have a goal, but to throw something out there that is seemingly unattainable without backing it up with any plan is irresponsible. First off, Skywest inc. owns ASa, and makes all and any decision on where ASa flies, what aircraft and from what hubs. Has ASa management ran their goals and visions past the big boys in Utah? What say them? My guess is laughter. Sure! We'll grow the Union boys at ASa, whose costs are higher, to double the size of Skywest, and overlap their routes into the western states. (Which is what they stated they were NOT going to do when ASa was aquired.)

To make these goals without simply stating one way to go about achieving them is purely lip-service. A huge "feel-good" in the wake of years of trying times. We still are about to lose 6 more airframes. Betting on getting flying from Mesa to me is a long-shot. There will be plenty of vultures to scramble for that if it ever happens, not the least of which is Skywest themselves would certainly jump on for their side. Count Expressjet, Pinnacle, AirWisconsin as others who would make a play.

The whole thing reeks of hype and sensationalism to bolster the re-branding of the company. How are they going to look a few years down the road when nothing materializes? What kind of credibility will they have? What if in 2 or 3 years there is zero growth and ASa still has furloughs? What is their timetable for achieving this, or even simply moving towards it? To make these grandiose claims in the wake of all this seems to me to be complete nonsense.