Fuel doom Skybus in Chattlanta

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Fuel dooms Skybus in 'Chattlanta'​

Skybus has failed "to tap into the 'Chattlanta' market," The Chattanooga Times Free Press writes a day after the airline's announcement that it would halt flights to Chattanooga. The ultra-low-cost carrier's business model focuses on serving alternative airports -- some more than 60 miles from the nearest big metro area. Chattanooga, for example, is about 115 miles from downtown Atlanta, prompting the Times Free Press' description of the "Chattlanta" market.
Skybus had just started flying between its Columbus, Ohio, base and Chattanooga three months ago, saying it at least hoped to draw from Atlanta's northern suburbs. "(High fuel prices) created a situation where Skybus, and I think most airlines can't be as patient with new markets as they normally would be and would like to be. Chattanooga was just not developing as quickly as we had hoped," Skybus spokesman Bob Tenenbaum tells the Times Free Press.

Posted at 10:02 AM/ET, Mar 20, 2008 in Airport news and route changes, Skybus | Permalink | Comments8

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[climbhappy]

since contintental drift causes the movement of about a foot every year. chatlanta will be one in about 500,000years

 

[fly4surf]

Fuel? What if fares were more than 10$

 

[spinproof]

Yeah those $10 fares are great especially when you figure in the $150 cab rides!!!!!!

 

[CX880]

Do you need any type of schooling to be an airline manager?

# Yes I know lets try to attract people from a major area by flying into an airport hours away and on another state.

#2 But isn't that a little too far and out of range.

# Don't worry we'll sell cheap tickets and there are plenty of rednecks and hillblilies in the suburubs who will go out of their ways to hop on a truck, bus or taxi and start to fly for no apperant reason to Columbus.

I hope skybus can do better than this.

 

[pilotyip]

They missed it it should have been Toledo, AirTran was sucking 1000's of pax out of DTW until the airport refused to pay the AirTran royality fee.

 

[TOOL CRIB]

since contintental drift causes the movement of about a foot every year. chatlanta will be one in about 500,000years

Unless they head in the other direction!

 

[PCL_128]

I hope skybus can do better than this.

I don't. Let them die.

 

[spinproof]

I don't. Let them die.

OK but you first!

 

[weasel_lips]

Better add a $100 fuel surcharge to those $10.00 seats.