Silverjet Shuts Down

May 30th, 2008 | By Jared Blank

I was off by a couple of days…Silverjet shut down operations today blaming the usual mix of fuel and blah blah blah. They’ve been doomed for a while, and when a recently announced bit of financing fell through it was all over. If you’re booked on them, give your credit card company a call.

In only slightly related news, if you care about Eos’ bankruptcy, it’s worth noting according to this bankruptcy filing that as they were running out of cash, they managed to give a number of their execs bonuses of more than $200,000 in December ‘07 and January ‘08. Good stuff.

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