More Low Cost Airline Options
Saturday May 26, 2007
2007 is proving to be a busy year for new, low cost airlines around the world. In the United States, two of the most recent low cost carriers to enter the air travel arena have had much different routes to starting up.
Skybus launched itself as a low cost contender by advertising $10 airfares that would be available on all of its flights. Seats at that price are of course limited, but it is an airfare special that is not set to expire anytime soon.
Virgin America has had a different experience. It has had to fight past objections by several airlines regarding ownership, and a few years later, has been able to secure FAA approval.
So where are these airlines based?
Skybus has its hub in Columbus, Ohio.
More about Skybus
Virgin America is set to fly out of its hub in San Francisco.
More about Virgin America
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Comments
Two nice alternatives for traveling at low cost!
VirginAmerica=AWSOME but 1 BAD employee#135101 name=IAN
There was two of us with ONE 75 pound lugage checking in an Over weight lugage in San Francisco (SFO)
So, I stepped aside to re-packed it, then weighed 68 pounds. Only to be hassle again and then asked to weigh my carry on.
The carry-on weighed 35 pound for two of us.
The pushy IAN forced us to check our carry-on in because that too was overwieght. Split between two people would have been 17.5 pounds easily.
My Question is “Did IAN have a bad day with his boy friend or girl friend?”
IAN, Doing a job you don’t like is worse than losing your job.