Comments on: Skybus Is Not Ryanair

By: Online Travel Review » Black April: Skybus is 4th Airline to Shut Down this Week

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:51:07 +0000

[...] fuel hedges. Skybus really should blame a poor business model for their demise. As I just wrote recently, although Skybus was often compared to Ryanair, it actually had little in common with the Irish [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:50:30 +0000

Jared-

Yes, I completely agree with you. I was thinking to myself, Skybus is really going to become the Florida Airline. I’m not that familiar with Allegiant, but it seems like you have hit the nail on the head.

I have flown Skybus four or five times, and I am beginning to feel some desperation amongst the flight crews. The initial funness of the airline has worn off, as they scale back their growth and find out that all things won’t be hunky dory with the new airline.

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:10:17 +0000

“Most of these tertiary cities have neither the bus nor train infrastructure to bring passengers to the city center. Then once in the city, passengers need a car to get around (unlike in Europe, where many cities are well served by public transport).”

great post. But I’d point out that most of the airports served by Ryanair have the same problems with transport — being far out in the country. But 1) doesn’t Ryanair sell rental cars; 2) Europeans do put up with more hassle than we would be willing to and 3) as you correctly point out, they are getting good vacation routes where people don’t mind renting a car.