Skybus Shuts Down Operations
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Skybus is kaput.
Skybus investors include Nationwide Mutual Capital, Huntington Capital Investment Co., Battelle Services Co. and Wolfe Enterprises Inc., a subsidiary of The Dispatch Printing Company, which owns WBNS-TV, the Ohio News Network, and the Columbus Dispatch.
The airline will cease flying tonight.
No recourse for passengers here, unless they can get a refund from their credit card company.
We have more than one PlaneBusiness Banter subscriber who is employed with the airline -- good luck to you -- and to all the Skybus employees who now find themselves with no job.
Comments
In one week we have lost:
Aloha
ATA
Champion Air
Skybus
Who is in store for next week?
Posted by: Chitragupta
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April 4, 2008 9:52 PM
Pretty scary stuff isn't it?
Anyone out there remember a week in the history of American aviation where we had four airlines shut the doors?
Posted by: Holly Hegeman
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April 4, 2008 10:07 PM
Well gosh how are you going to track them all? Western was bought by Delta so is it gone? Some of Pan Am was bought by both Delta and United but National was bought by Pan Am yet we mark Pan Am as gone. TWA was bought by AA so is Ozark gone? Makes my head spin.
Here is a complete list (as of last week.) Scroll down to United States -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_airlines#North_America
Posted by: Chitragupta
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April 4, 2008 11:51 PM
Skyway Airlines also ceased flying this weekend I think (dba Midwest Connection.) Their closure had been announce for several weeks though.
Posted by: Chuck
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April 7, 2008 9:28 AM