Comments on: ATA Files Bankruptcy, Strands Employees http://currentemployment.net/2008/04/ata-files-bankruptcy-strands-employees/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://currentemployment.net/2008/04/ata-files-bankruptcy-strands-employees/#comment-22 Anonymous Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:30:00 +0000 http://currentemployment.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/ata-files-bankruptcy-strands-employees/#comment-22 More from the PR:<br/>"Staples said that all ATA employees are the ultimate victims of a series of incompetent managers who chose to blame economic conditions for the airline's problems instead of admitting their own mistakes.<br/><br/> 'We were telling management two years ago that they needed to institute a fuel management program, and even found a fuel consultant who offered to work with the company - but our overtures to help ATA reduce its fuel costs were repeatedly ignored,' he said. 'Management decided to outsource virtually all of our maintenance, then acquired elderly, unreliable DC-10s that needed extensive repairs. The ripple effect of years of poor<br/>management decisions - not the current economy - was what doomed ATA." More from the PR:
“Staples said that all ATA employees are the ultimate victims of a series of incompetent managers who chose to blame economic conditions for the airline’s problems instead of admitting their own mistakes.

‘We were telling management two years ago that they needed to institute a fuel management program, and even found a fuel consultant who offered to work with the company – but our overtures to help ATA reduce its fuel costs were repeatedly ignored,’ he said. ‘Management decided to outsource virtually all of our maintenance, then acquired elderly, unreliable DC-10s that needed extensive repairs. The ripple effect of years of poor
management decisions – not the current economy – was what doomed ATA.”

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