Who's the next Airline to go Bankrupt?

Ok, keep us guessing: WHAT THREE airlines went bankrupt this past week??

I know that ATA Airlines sold rights to Air Tran, who was formerly in bankruptcy. Here's this article:
http://www.ata.com/

WHO ELSE?

Let's try this again: how are we going to guess who the NEXT airline is, if you don't tell us who the LAST three airlines were?

We don't know WHO you have already counted, and the admins won't be able to guess this either. And speaking of settlement, what major news source is going to report that THIS IS THE NEXT AIRLINE you have been waiting for?

If the history on this question can be edited with the names of the three bankrupt airlines, so that hubdubbers and admins alike can see WHO they are, this is a good question and should remain.

Aloha Airlines, ATA, and Skybus all ceased passenger operations this past week.

To be [cough] really clear, the market ought clarify "passenger operations", as Aloha was continuing freight operations, but (as I recall) they ultimately wanted to sell that off as well. (The closure of Aloha was like losing a "family member" to native Hawaiians -- it had served the Islands since 1946.)

On a related note, Champion Air, a up-scale charter air service in Columbus, Ohio, has announced it will shut down May 31, 2008.

This market doesn't distinguish between scheduled service carriers and charter carriers -- only qualifying term is "Any other U.S.-based Airline" -- where "airline" could be open to definition.

I forgot to include in the above ... I think this is a great question!

Sorry, randburg... My first question. I didn't mean to be vague. Aloha Airlines, ATA, and Skybus were indeed the airlines. Scheduled service passenger carriers were my intention, but I was not aware of Champion's announcement. They should be excluded from the market if the announcement was made before the question.

I want to make sure that Champion Air (which announced before the question was created) is excluded. The editor's settlement edit came before comment 5 by the creator mentioned the airline exclusion.

Thank you gotmick and newswrangler. gotmick: we LIKE your first question and look forward to many more...!

Wow -- Frontier Airlines in bankruptcy!
Talk about "low margin" operations ... Frontier claims the reason was "The low-fare carrier said it was forced into bankruptcy after its principal credit card processor said it would begin withholding a greater share of proceeds from ticket sales."

Were they using PayPal, I wonder?

I put $50.00 on Frontier Airlines and gained H$1,389.55 -- maybe if I gave that to Frontier they would be ok.

Gotmick -- time for another question?

I guess so! Frontier wasn't even on my radar... and so quick! Some of us are barely getting by with all the high gas prices and their problem was credit card fees? Yeah right. Sounds like they've been living ticket to ticket.