319driver

Inexperienced in that our CEO had zero airline CEO experience, our COO had zero airlines COO experience, our CFO had zero airline CFO experience, our DO had zero airline experience, our Chief Pilot had zero airlines Chief Pilot experience. The potential was there is just didn't work out.

stepchild

CP Chris G. was CP at PHL with USA or were you in GSO? The rest you are correct.

They still screwed it big time!

I hope life is treating you well after SX.

Take care,

SC

AirWillie

I'm guessing since they're trying to start it up again, they didn't lose much on the first attempt? I mean having 160 mil and being gone within a year doesn't make much sense. If they actually do start it again I hope they chose a better fleet, after all they were a "regional" airline, and fix their ground ops which was a joke. I read in the end they only had a 49% on time percentage.

KC10 FATboy

Former Skybus operators mull low-cost airline in Cincy | eTurboNews | Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport

http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/9/...Scouting+a+Hub

Ugh!

The good people of Ohio / NKY are already getting a double s*it sandwhich ... DAL is pulling out as well as the DHL fiasco.

I hope they don't get sold on SkybusII -- they're going to be let down.

-Fatty

mesasurvivor

After all the reading that I have done on SB, SBII, etc., you just finally have to realize that restarting an operation of this sort at this time is just purely a pipe dream.

I know some SB pilots....all great guys.....and it really sucks what happened to all of them. Seems like they really enjoyed working at the place and believed in the future. It is a shame that it didn't work out.

Best of luck to all of you & with that it is time to finally bury Skybus & just move on.

meeko031

What's your solution to the problem? Can you blame these "kids" that are are focused and driven that are willing to take any flying to get their flying careers on track? It's not them (including me) that's the problem, it's management!!!!

good day

DeadHead

Yeah it's a real shame to see that the bar wasn't able to descend any lower.

I'm glad to see Skybus fail because their business model of $20 airfares cheapens the entire industry. Skybus's failure is a testament to arrogant upper lever management types who think that anyone can run an airline.

That may seem a little over the top and I wouldn't wish a furlough or a layoff on anyone, but any pilot who went to Skybus for a job had it coming.
I don't mean to say they deserved it, but with the weak business model and overall managerial inexperience bankruptcy left it to more of a question of when, rather than if.

yawdamp

319DRIVER - Way to defend. You had guts going with SKB.

Yadda, Yadda, Blah, Blah, Blah - I know these forums have tenderized the meat of the SKB subject.

Yet isn't life a passion, about being apart of something different, something innovative. All *hoboes* who take the ultra conservative route (aka an 'established' airline - I am humble, I include myself here) will be setting themselves up for ultimate failure. Happiness is doing what you love.

*Pay* (salary) is determined by Supply an Demand - People will work for less if they love the job. Police officers, teachers, millitary personnel: these people make a d-i-f-f-e-r-e-n-c-e in our lives and are paid pennies.

B727DRVR - Thanks for setting the record straight on MULCHER. It is easy to talk from a pedistal. Come down here in the dirt with me. I have nothing to loose. You have everything.

MULCHER - I know that you have worked hard, dang hard for what you have achieved. Standing up for what is right - appropriate pay - is important. I too cannot believe the paygrades out there. Yet did you not start this career starving, AND happy; knowing it was a long shot to be paid well to do this job? Don't fault anyone for taking a chance. You know not from which they came. Your comments come across as prideful - one of the seven deadly sins.

mulcher

This horse is dead.

stepchild

But you just did! What are really trying to say?