Skybus becomes third airline this week to close (CNN)

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(CNN) -- Skybus Airlines announced Friday it is shutting down its passenger flights -- becoming the third airline this week to cease operations.

The low-cost carrier couldn't overcome "the combination of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment," the company said Friday. "These two issues proved to be insurmountable for a new carrier."

Skybus, an Ohio-based airline founded in 2004, will cease operations effective Saturday.

Earlier in the week, ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines announced they would shut down flights as both companies work through bankruptcy filings.

ATA, an Indiana-based low-cost charter airline, filed for Chapter 11 status Wednesday as a result of financial problems "following the loss of a key contract for our military charter business," the company said. The company started operation in 1973.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/04/04/airlines.bankruptcy/index.html

[Peggy Day]

1. WOW! I almost purchased tickets

for May from them just yesterday. They had nonstop flights from Oakland Ca to Columbus Ohio (unheard of for many many years). They were suspending flights after May 31 from the west coast.

[MadMaddie]

2. Damn how many people are unemployed?

It just never ends..

[Historic NY]

3. Great, simply great now we lose another carrier at Stewart.....

my local international airport might just as well close up.

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080404/NEWS/80404036

[DemocratInSoCal]

4. Nothing To See Here.....Move Along nt