I woke up this morning to several TXT messages from family telling me that SkyBus went bankrupt. Real nice!
Cheap people all around the country have spent their hard-earned $10 for flights and now they are just going to keep it because of a little thing called rising fuel costs?!?
The gas for my car is rising too. Too bad. All of us are stuggling with fuel costs. We can’t just give up. Why shouldn’t SkyBus have to stick it out too?
Actually I don’t really care because I’m not that cheap. They can have my 20 bucks. The date I picked to go back to Massachusetts was not ideal anyway. I’ll get to pick a better date if I use a “normal” airline.
What is far more interesting is that today is the last day any SkyBus airlines will fly and my co-worker Shannon Miller is in Ohio right now. He flew out there on SkyBus and was supposed to fly back here to North Carolina tomorrow.
I guess he’ll need to get a cab? We’ll see. Stay tuned.
Shannon TXT’d me this morning. It seems he heard about the SkyBus situation last night and was able to get a one-way plane ticket home from another carrier. He’ll be coming home on Monday.
I will pick him up from the airport.
My mom has kindly reminded me that I did not just pay $20. I paid $77! Oh my. I guess I probably should at least try to get my money back. I’m not holding my breath though.
UPDATE: Shannon and SueAnn are coming home tomorrow night (Monday). I volunteered to pick them up only to find out later that they will be coming in at 10:30 PM! Good grief. Good thing I like them.
Looks like they had to scramble to get some one-way tickets.