Editing ATA Airlines (section)

====2007====
* ATA Airlines announced that [[Subodh Karnik]] would become ATA's new president and chief executive officer (CEO) replacing [[John G. Denison]], who continued as ATA's chairman of the board of directors.
* ATA for the first time in three years added several flights to and from its [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] (MDW) hub.
* ATA's parent company, ATA Holdings, announced on April 5, 2007, that it would change its name to [[Global Aero Logistics, Inc.]], in a move that, according to then-CEO [[Subodh Karnik]], "better reflects the company's diverse, worldwide operations".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ata.com/about_ata/news/20070405.pdf |title=ATA Holding changes its name |publisher=Ata.com |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203001130/http://ata.com/about_ata/news/20070405.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> That same day, [[Global Aero Logistics, Inc.]] announced an agreement to acquire World Air Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries, [[World Airways]] and [[North American Airlines]], for $315 million in cash. Each airline, as stated in the official announcement, was to keep operating independently.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ata.com/about_ata/news/20070405a.pdf |title=Global Aero Logistics acquisition of World Air Holdings |publisher=Ata.com |access-date=August 9, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203001132/http://ata.com/about_ata/news/20070405a.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> With the acquisition of World Airways, and the holding companies organizational name change to Global Aero Logistics, it was decided that three of the planned nine DC-10s acquired by ATA would be transferred directly to World Airways' [[operating certificate]], resulting in employee layoffs at ATA.
* Starting in October 2007, ATA announced it would terminate service on several routes affecting [[Chicago Midway International Airport]], [[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport|Washington D.C. Reagan National Airport]], [[LaGuardia Airport]], and [[LA/Ontario International Airport]]. These service cuts left ATA operating to four destinations from its former Chicago hub.