Skybus becomes fourth airline to shut down this week

Skybus Airlines becomes the fourth victim of high fuel prices and has decided to shut down this week. Customers should know the drill by now, call your credit card company and ask for a refund. Skybus joins Aloha, Champion, and ATA.

What’s interesting to me is the vitriol that Skybus had going for it. Read this Airliners.net thread for some choice quotes from posters taking pleasure in the shutdown of Skybus and other airlines.

• The story is in the columbus dispatch. feel sorry for the employees, but I’m glad this stupid concept of an airline is gone.
• Good bye and God riddance, rot in hell SkyBus, serves the employees right, they took below standard wages undercutting their peers in the industry!
• The fact is that when SkyBus opened the airline industry in the US was in its largest hiring boom in recent times, there was an extreme shortage of pilots all around, people that went to SkyBus were the ones that didn’t want to wait a few more months flying a CRJ and hopped at the opportunity to fly that shiny A319, in the process accepting wages that would have been spat on by pilots in all other airlines, they wanted the big jet now, and now they are paying for it, most reasonable pilots waited and got on with CO, DL, UA, FL, US, etc, but some always have to undercut there fellow pilots.
  Karma is a bia….
• I’m neutral on Skybus, but I am so glad to see TZ(do feel for the employees) gone. Anything related to WN, I can’t stand.
• We can only hope Mesa suffers a downward spiral that ends in flames and a shutdown but with enough warning for the majors they serve to be able to cope. It would at least make what they did to Aloha a little easier to swallow.

TZ=ATA Airlines, WN=Southwest Airlines

Written by tb_neg on April 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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