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Fri, Nov 05, 2004

Indy Woman Behind Grassroots Campaign To Save ATA

Networking To Send Out Message Of Hope

Neither Lorraine Ball nor Suzanne Schwartz works for ATA Airlines. They're not even "unofficial employees" like the guy in the Wendy's hamburgers commercial. But if they have anything to do with it, ATA will not go the way of the dodo.

When Suzanne heard about ATA's financial dissolution and its merger with AirTran Saturday, the Indianapolis Star reports she wrote to about 25 friends, lamenting the loss. Lorraine was one of them. She wrote emails to another 1600 people, including a link to ATA's website where they could buy tickets.

But Lorraine wasn't finished there. She wrote to both Rainmakers and the Entrepreneur's Alliance of Indiana. Together, those networking organizations are sending out almost 12,000 more emails, hoping they can stave off ATA's demise.

"This is grass-roots marketing," Lorraine says. "Tell a few people and they tell a few more, and so on. It is what I do for a living. And I thought if I could apply the same principles here, it might have a positive effect."

But will it help? Perhaps, some speculate, it doesn't have to.

The email campaigns do show that ATA has some support from the hometown fans in Indianapolis. "It's kind of like the Pacers or the Colts. It's a legitimacy factor, in having a home-based airline," says Tony Scelzo, executive director of Rainmakers. His is a two-year old networking group with almost 300 members.

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce is watching. Chamber President John Myrland has been talking with Mayor Bart Peterson and his staff, but the Star reports no actions have been "firmed up" at this point.

FMI: www.ata.com

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