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I was reading that earlier this year ( i believe that was the time ) the Indianapolis Airport Authority granted a permit to ASA. This is to operate under the name Delta Connections. Did they already fly here and that was a renewal? Or will they start flying here for Delta?

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I don't know if it's new or a renewal, but ASA is DL's regional out of ATL only. Perhaps DL was flying only mainline a/c before and now they're going to be adding some frequency with regional jets?

And FWIW, I believe ASA is still exclusive as DL's regional ex-ATL. As opposed to CVG, which has Comair, ACA (unless they're totally gone now, since they became Independence Air, right?), Chautauqua/Republic/ShuttleAmerica, and one or two others, all flying at various times under the DL Connection banner.

Interestingly, though, I mentioned on my post in General Discussions last night that there was an ASA/DL Connection a/c sitting on the pad. The tail was painted with the red/white/blue "waxy flag" motif that DL uses on the tails of their mainline a/c, but without the DELTA name on it. Near the nose, it had the ASA logo, but nowhere did I see it saying Delta Connection or anything like that. Strange?

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ASA does operate out of CVG, I saw some last year during my Cinncinnati trip.

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Aahh. You're right. They didn't used to fly out of CVG, but according to their website, they now fly between CVG and:

MKE, LAN, YYZ, DCA, ILM, GSO, CAE, GSP, CHA, TLH, BTR, SHV, and TUL.