$9 Cheap Seats on JetAmerica and other cattle car stories ...

[Ken_gone_flying]

Another new low cost airline, probably with low cost maintenance technicians.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-lowcost-airline-targets-apf-15348934.html?.v=5

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

You get what you pay for. Wooo a huge selection of destinations too.

 

[nikiterp86]

I got excited when I saw this because it reminded me of RyanAir and EasyJet, which I flew often when I lived in Europe. Both low-cost airlines, and both pretty awesome (for the most part). I've been hoping for a similar airline in the US. Maybe this one will eventually become like them and make travel within the US more affordable and accessible... I'm cautiously optimistic.

 

[Fog]

My 1st thought: Huh? A business model that flies people from smallish cities to others where no one much wants to go?! I hope they'll be well-capitalized, as 737-800's cost about $75MM apiece.

 

[ZekeBathory]

Imagine the clientele. Even Greyhounds can't keep smelly homeless guys and nasty drug dealers off of their buses with their cheap fares. At $9 a seat, ANYONE can get a seat. Sorry for sounding like an elitist, but that's not a good thing.

 

[nzachman]

Great, another Skybus. Except Skybus flew to some nice cities. JetAmerica flies to Toledo fricking Ohio :icon_boxi

 

[insanebikerboy]

I've always wanted to go to Lansing....

 

[AJTranny]

Imagine the clientele. Even Greyhounds can't keep smelly homeless guys and nasty drug dealers off of their buses with their cheap fares. At $9 a seat, ANYONE can get a seat. Sorry for sounding like an elitist, but that's not a good thing.

I think anyone who's ridden a Greyhound understands your point.

 

[Ken_gone_flying]

I had one Greyhound bus experience and it was the most unpleasant 3 hours I've ever spent travellling. I went from Albuquerque to Farmington to look at Mesa flight training when I was 18. The dude next to me smelled terrible and it was a packed bus with nowhere else to sit.

 

[gotta_fly]

Great, another Skybus. Except Skybus flew to some nice cities. JetAmerica flies to Toledo fricking Ohio :icon_boxi

Skybus was absolutely terrible. They cancelled a flight on me for maintenance and couldn't offer me another flight for 3 days since the two flights before mine had also been cancelled. They offered no vouchers of any kind, so I ended up around $500 out of pocket for a hotel room and two last minute tickets out the next morning on a real airline. I celebrated when they went under.

 

[HackerF15E]

I got excited when I saw this because it reminded me of RyanAir and EasyJet, which I flew often when I lived in Europe. Both low-cost airlines, and both pretty awesome (for the most part). I've been hoping for a similar airline in the US. Maybe this one will eventually become like them and make travel within the US more affordable and accessible... I'm cautiously optimistic.

This is SkyBus partII.

So, like RyanAir, but crappier.

 

[ZekeBathory]

I have a long history with Greyhound. Each and every time I got on one of those damn things, something crazy or f-ed up happened. Each and every time I got off of one of those things, I swore it was for the last time.

Define misery: a 29-hour busride from New Jersey to Central Florida next to a guy who carries his luggage in a black trash bag and smells like diarrhea.

Needless to say, I have not and never will complain about airport security or delays. Ever.

 

[squeeze]

Imagine the clientele. Even Greyhounds can't keep smelly homeless guys and nasty drug dealers off of their buses with their cheap fares. At $9 a seat, ANYONE can get a seat. Sorry for sounding like an elitist, but that's not a good thing.

Ah, for the days when aviation was a gentleman's pursuit, back before every Joe Sweatsock could wedge himself behind a lunch-tray and jet off to Raleigh-Durham.

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

Ah, for the days when aviation was a gentleman's pursuit, back before every Joe Sweatsock could wedge himself behind a lunch-tray and jet off to Raleigh-Durham.

That wasn't too long ago. I remember in the early 90s they were serving a nice steak to me in coach class.

 

[A4sForever]

Ah, for the days when aviation was a gentleman's pursuit....

When I was a kid, ALL the gentlemen wore coats/ties/hats and the ladies wore dresses ... flying was a BIG deal. It was special ....

One of my airlines would do a Chateaubriand dinner (carved at your row/seat) w/potatoes & vegetables and wine that rivaled the fare at many fine restaurants -- seriously.

All the while seated in your fresh-from-Argentina leather seats ....