[buccaneer81]

Another one bites the dust. No surprise.

[Paleo Conservative]

Good riddence!

[patch789]

welcome news

[aposiopetic]

As of today, Skybus was making 80 daily flights to 15 cities around the U.S. It made its first flight from its home base at Port Columbus on May 22 of last year and opened a second base in Greensboro, N.C. in January.

Skybus has approximately 450 employees. Of those, 350 are based in Columbus, with the remainder in Greensboro.

Didn't they have employees in those other 14 cities they flew to?

[manc]

gutted My wife is from massachusetts and we live in st augustine FL and we were hoping to visit more often back and forth actually she was

[Maelstorm]

It was an interesting model but they must have had trouble making money and that is the ruler that all business should and must be measured. I do think there is a place and demand for discount carriers but this is not yet the time for them.

I fly United and for me the service has only gotten better the more I have flown with them. The clerks at the counter and at flight check-in have been especially good at going the extra mile even holding a plane for me while I was going through security and checking me in when I was running behind and they knew I was due to arrive. I fly so much that the extra service makes life much easier.

[TC Rider]

Hmmm, this sucks. We were schedule to fly from NC to NH in June for a family affair.

They dumped a buddy and I off a canceled flight in Feb from NC to Springfield, MAss.

[nralife]

Aloha
Champion
ATA

and now Skybus...

Who's next?

What a pitiful situation.

[OeOeO]

Any Columbus freepers? I lived there over 10 years and never heard of an international flight out of Port Columbus International Airport. Of course in those days P.C.I.A. resembled the airport in the movie Casablanca.

[monkeyshine]

$10 bucks a ticket? Sheesh. Reminds me of the commercial “I’ll buy the gas, you buy the food”. You can’t even start a plane for $10 per passenger. Heck, the security fee is more than that.