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...compensation add up, but this won't be a knockout punch for American, which expects to be back to normal service by Sunday. A much bigger worry for every airline is fuel costs, which have doubled over the last year. That's what's behind the troubles of ATA, Skybus, Aloha and Frontier Airlines, which have all filed for bankruptcy protection within the last three weeks. The FAA is continuing its by-the-book campaign with audits of other airlines, but there may not be another inspection-related shutdown of this magnitude anytime soon, since no other carrier...
FINANCIAL WOES Aloha Airlines, ATA and Skybus all ceased operations in the same week this month, and Champion Air will shut down in May. Rising fuel prices, among other factors, made it difficult to stay...
...Skybus touts its jets as “the most modern, fuel-efficient… planes available today,” but the inescapable laws of physics and chemistry make air travel an incredibly energy-intense means of travel. According to data published in the New York Times, a Boeing 747 crossing the Atlantic emits nearly 2,800 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) for each person on board, and USA Today reports that you would have to drive an SUV for a month to emit as much CO2 as a jetliner emits per person on a New York to Denver...
...truth is that, low-cost airlines such as Skybus are also low-conscience airlines. The cost of air travel will be paid, if not by travelers, then by the environment. America should consider a way of factoring the externalities of air travel into the cost of a ticket, just has been proposed by the European Commission...
...course, that kind of carbon pricing system is, for the time being, politically and economically untenable in America. But if politicians and the voting public can’t be trusted to change their views, I hope that we potential consumers can at least let Skybus be someone else’s cross-country Fung...