http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/new-airline-to-offer-10-tickets/20070425075209990001?cid=403 Columbus based Skybus Air looking to sell 10 of its seats for $10 each way on every flight. Baggage claim and everything else extra, but cheap seats. KC is apparently on the list of routes serviced. Wed. June 20th 7p is the road game at Columbus unfortunately. The only flight scheduled leaves KCI after 10p on Tuesday. The return flight is scheduled for 9p Thursday night. That one will run you $25. So really, to catch that game it's $35. http://www.skybus.com/ LA, Boston, and DC serviced to within an hour drive of the city.
I read about this company on CNN. They are a new airline trying to offer cheap seats. KC is one of the only cities they are going to be flying to.
i saw this... i hadn't compared the Wizards schedule to the flight sched.... i would be interested... even though my wedding is 2 weeks later... maybe i should run the idea past the fiance... she may have issue with it... (i can't imagine why)
That would be cool, hopefully I'll be making the 2 1/2 hour car ride there for a Wizards game this summer anyway. If other Wizards fans are there that would make it even better.
Crazy thing about those fares... Taxes and 9/11 security fee in a lot of cases are more than the fare. I was looking at that exact same trip a few days ago and was lucky enough to get the $10 fare each way. $20 in fares. $25 in taxes...
Oh boy, here we go, it's Valu-Jet all over again. It's always the same with these start-up airlines. They buy up the oldest planes in the major carriers' fleets for pennies on the dollar (because that takes the maintenance cost and liability risk off the books), then they mark down the seats, fly them until one of them inevitably dies of old age in-flight, declare bankruptcy to protect themselves from the wrongful death suits, sell off the assets and go retire to an oceanfront villa in the Caymans. Flying these airlines is like the death lottery.
Except for the fact that Valu-Jet didn't have a plane "die inevitably of old age". They had a plane with improperly stored hazardous cargo catch fire.
Please do a little research before posting. Skybus will be flying new Airbus A319 planes. As Airbus fills the order, the first few will be late model leases.
Apologies to Skybus then, but that has not been the pattern in the past with startups. And frankly, I don't see how they could dream of profitability buying an all-new fleet, then discounting the fares.
A fascinating and innovative business model. A stupid one, but fascinating and innovative none the less. Boy, I make a hyperbolic, very tongue-in-cheek post and now look. George Carlin does this non-stop (not comparing myself to George Carlin)--he exaggerates his point in an amusing way to make it stick in the viewer's mind. In this case, I happened to be wrong. However, generally speaking, discount airlines (which almost all start-ups are because the barriers to entry are too great to compete with AA, SW, etc.) fly very old aircraft knowing full well that they are difficult/expensive to maintain and there may very well be an age-related crash of some sort. And yes, if it happens they will take every legal and financial step in the book to make sure they are not hurt by it. The degree to which there is negligence or indifference to human life varies from case to case I'm sure. Is that concrete enough for Big Soccer? I think I've cleansed it of all traces of abstract thought so I should be okay this time.
The key word here is BUS. If I wanted to be crammed into a seat that required the Jaws of Life to extricate me, I'd fly GREYHOUND