Skybus website launched!

[Dizel8]

"Typically seats 156 passengers, with comfortable leather seats throughout the cabin."

156 seats on an A-319, oh the joy!

 

[HighSpeedClimb]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]New Skybus airlines offering $10 one-way ticket to Columbus[/FONT]

By Harriet Johnson Brackey
Sun-Sentinel. com
Posted April 24 2007, 2:52 PM EDT



[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial, Helvetica] Start-up Skybus Airlines is offering $10 one-way tickets on flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus, Ohio, beginning May 29.

The airline announced its first service today, pending Federal Aviation Administration approval.

The Columbus-based airline has been in formation for three years.

It plans to begin service with leased-Airbus A319 jets, which will each seat 145 passengers. The initial destinations, starting May 22, include Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Bay area, Seattle/Vancouver, Richmond, Va., Kansas City and Greensboro/Winston-Salem, N.C.

The airline also promises that $10 fares are not a promotional fare that will be discontinued, said spokesman Bob Tenenbaum. There will be at least 10 $10 seats available on all of its flights, he said. However, passengers will also have to pay taxes and fees that could add up to $10.40 each way, Skybus said.

Tickets are now on sale on the Internet only for flights through Dec. 15 at www.skybus.com.

A spokesman for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport said Skybus would be operating from Terminal 3, Concourse E. The last airline to begin service at the Fort Lauderdale airport was Aeromexico in October 2006.

Skybus is not related to a charter plane operator by the same name that was based in Fort Lauderdale in the early 1990s, Tenenbaum said. [/FONT]

 

[bgaviator]

I've heard 45,000 fares sold since 2 pm

 

[g-code]

Columbus is actually a pretty good city. If you dont go past the hilton garden inn at the airport, then it may be boring to you. There are good bars downtown... (lodge bar, brothers, frog bear wild boar, etc) Campus is an awesome time, and you can get anywhere in under a half hour. Dublin, Westerville, and Upper Arlington are very nice suburbs, cost of living is low, and plenty of recreation sites.

You may not want to take a vacation to CMH, but it is the biggest city in Ohio, and within two hours of CLE, PIT, CVG, DAY and only a bit further to IND. With driving to the airport easy from any of those cities via I-70 or I-71, I bet they sell plenty of seats. If not...I bet 65 million in funds and $10 fares will.

CMH is bigger than CVG and CLE?

 

[doylehargraves]

And don't forget to visit the Skybus online shop at http://www.cafepress.com/skybus/ for all your Skybus needs like this oh-so-cute "low fare bear"

Remember, these are the guys that are looking to Ryanair for inspiration.

An airline typically will not survive once they come out with the inevitable "shark-jumping" cutsie doll.

 

[imacdog]

CMH is bigger than CVG and CLE?

According to the population statistics, it is.

 

[bgaviator]

CMH is bigger than CVG and CLE?

The city of Columbus is the largest city in Ohio now and is continuing to grow. Columbus is the 15th most populous city in the U.S.

 

[buxflyr]

CMH is bigger than CVG and CLE?

Yes, the city is bigger in population.

 

[buxflyr]

I've heard 45,000 fares sold since 2 pm

You seem to have quite a close source for Skybus there falcon. First the website launch date nailed and now the tix sales....45,000 since 2pm?? Did you hear if most were originators from CMH and what city is the most popular to travel to?

 

[Captain Morgan]

Check this out: http://ask.skybus.com/about/rules-of-flying.shtml

That's rediculous. This Skybus airline is a Communist airline. I'm suprised their slogan isn't "For the people!!!" Where's The Russian on this one?