Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
Rode the jumpseat with some ASA guys last week and they told me this was coming. Cockpit rumor was that GoJets bid below cost to get the contract and were having a heck of a time filling the seats for the flying they committed to, much of which will be done in jets taken away from ASA. Of course these guys were in a fine mood. Can't blame them.
Those airplanes were originally at Comair, and were taken away during bankruptcy negotiations and given to ASA, resulting in the furlough of 60 pilots in 2005.