skybus

Take a dollop of recession, a healthy spoonful of declining air passenger numbers, add the scent of prior failure and what do you get? A new airline. Some of the people behind the recently folded Skybus are back with JetAmerica, a new regional airline that will serve a few towns in the Great Lakes...

Skybus, the no-frills airline headquartered in my home town of Columbus, announced yesterday it was folding its wings and quitting. The airline has discontinued all flights, stranding passengers who were due return trips from their outbound flight, and declared bankrupcy. The move, which the...

I've blogged about the start-up no-frills airline Skybus, based in my home town of Columbus, Ohio. Entering the market at a time when passengers are screaming about poor service with an airline that brags about having no customer service department may, in hindsight, be seen as a mistake. The...

Upstart discount airline Skybus is out with its incredibly cheap summer fares -- only problem for most of us is that the bulk of its flights originate from Columbus, Ohio and Greensboro, North Carolina and go to just 17 cities. It does offer a few non-stop flights from Boston to cities in Florida,...

On Christmas morning, two planes of the start-up cheaper-than-cheap-fares airlines Skybus were out of commission. These things happen to all airlines, right? Usually, stranded passengers catch a later flight, or the airline arranges a seat on a competitor's flight. Inconvenient, sure, but not the...