ATA.Com Sets More Records for Online Reservations and Average Bookings Per Day.Business & Travel Editors INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2002 ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment (American Trans Air, Inc.)(Nasdaq:AMTR AMTR Australian Music Teachers Register AMTR Annual Media and Technology Report AMTR Anterior Medial Temporal Resection AMTR Atlantic Missile Test Range ) today announced that reservations made online via the Company's website at ATA.Com rose 57 percent on Monday, April 8, 2002, compared to the record previously achieved in January 2002. In addition, the number of average bookings per day thus far for the year 2002 is 46 percent higher than the number of average bookings per day for the entire year of 2001. The first two weeks of April have shown significant growth with average bookings for April 1 through April 9, 2002 at 65 percent higher than average bookings for all of 2001. Since the debut of the Company's online booking engine in 1999, ATA's online booking growth has risen rapidly month-by-month. "Our rising numbers are a testament that our customers find using ATA.Com an easy and effective alternative," said Don Moonjian, ATA Vice President of Marketing. "In addition to the convenience factor, customers are pleased with the many discounts and special incentives ATA offers them when booking airfare via the website." ATA frequently offers special discounts to customers who book online. In addition to its "Buy 3, Fly Free" program, which rewards customers who purchase three round-trip airline tickets online with a free travel certificate to any city ATA or Chicago Express Chicago Express Airlines, Inc. (IATA: C8, ICAO: WDY, and Callsign: Windy City) was a regional airline formerly based at Chicago Midway International Airport located in Chicago, Illinois. It operated regional feeder services under the name ATA Connection. (doing business as ATA Connection) serves in the continental U.S. or Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. (subject to availability and black-out dates), the Company is currently offering specials exclusively through ata.com with its "ATA.Com Sun Sale." For more information about the "Buy 3, Fly Free" program or the "ATA.Com Sun Sale" visit the Company's website at www.ata.com. To make an airline reservation by phone, contact your travel agent or call 1-800-I-FLY-ATA, or en Espanol at 1-800-VUELA-ATA. Now in its 29th year of operation, ATA is the nation's 10th largest carrier based A transmission system that generates a fixed frequency (carrier) to contain the data being transmitted. See carrier. on revenue passenger miles Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) is a measure of a passenger traffic for an airline flight, bus, or train calculated by multiplying the total number of revenue-paying passengers aboard the vehicle by the distance traveled measured in miles. flown. ATA offers significant scheduled service from Chicago-Midway and Indianapolis to 40 business and vacation destinations. Stock of the Company's parent company, Amtran, Inc., is traded on the NASDAQ stock market Nasdaq stock market The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol "AMTR." |
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