Atlantic Southeast Airlines

• Cincinnati
• Atlanta
• Orlando

Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. (ASA ) was an American regional airline based in Atlanta. She was in full possession of SkyWest, Inc. and flew exclusively for Delta Airlines under the Delta Connection paint.

History

On March 12, 1979 Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. was founded with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Flight operations started on 27 June 1979 a Twin Otter from Atlanta to Columbus. 1981 ASA received its first Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, followed by a de Havilland Canada DHC- seventh 1982 Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc. went public.

1983 bought Atlantic Southeast Airlines South Eastern Airlines and 1984 ASA was one of the first regional airline partner of Delta Connection. In 1984 she became the first customer of the Embraer EMB 120 1985 eingeflottet the first machine. On 23 May 1986 Delta Airlines acquired 20% of Atlantic Southeast Airlines - share package.

In 1993, the first ATR 72-210 was eingeflottet. The jet age began for Atlantic Southeast Airlines on 1 December 1995 with the deployment of the first BAe 146 In 1997, the first Bombardier CRJ.

On March 22, 1999 Delta Airlines Atlantic Southeast Airlines took over 100%. Together with the Delta Connection partner Atlantic Southeast Airlines Comair -actuated the largest ever issued order of 396 machines at Bombardier. 2002 Atlantic Southeast Airlines received the first CRJ-700 for Delta Connection. All machines were already obtained CRJ200.

August 15, 2005 Delta Airlines offered the Atlantic Southeast Airlines of SkyWest, Inc. for purchase. On 8 September 2005, the acquisition was completed and closed at the same time a new codeshare agreement for ASA.

Effective 1 January 2012 merged with Atlantic Southeast Airlines ExpressJet Airlines under their name and put one 's own company.

Fleet

As of November 2011, the fleet of Atlantic Southeast Airlines consisted of 168 aircraft:

Incidents

• On August 21, 1995 fell Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 with 26 passengers and three crew members on board off after an engine damage.