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...Skybus, an airline that will make its inaugural flight in late May, hopes to bring this kind of travel within reach of almost every college student’s wallet, bringing to America what bargain-basement air carriers such as Ryanair brought to Europe: transcontinental flights at Fung-Wah prices—or less...
What scares me is that an airline ticket priced at $20 after all taxes and fees—which the Skybus website advertises will be available for at least 10 seats on every flight—makes sucker-punching the environment as easy as buying a t-shirt...
While many start-ups are expected to master the lessons of survival, most will not. Last month, for instance, upstarts Skybus of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Key Airlines of Atlanta went under. Yet despite the failures, the wave of new carriers represents a healthy sign of life for the troubled industry and a renewed promise of lower fares and more choices for consumers. And who can argue with that...
...slow walk. Desperate for a way to reduce the growing crush, cities are seeking to improve their mass transit with new ideas, new systems and new equipment. Last week American Machine & Foundry announced that 18 U.S. cities are considering elevated monorail systems. Pittsburgh is building a one-mile experimental "skybus" expressway over which remote-control trains of rubber-tired buses will be guided by an I-shaped center rail. And the President fortnight ago ordered the Commerce Department to study plans for a high speed (about 150 m.p.h.) rail service along the 380-mile "megalopolis" between Boston and Washington...
Like the XB-42, it will be powered by two Allison engines in the front of the fuselage, driving the propellers by shafts extending the length of the plane. In the Skybus, Douglas expects to carry 48 passengers at the record low operating rate of 7^ a ton-mile. Soon Douglas expects to start taking orders for his Skybus. He hopes to start delivering them within a year, have them take the place of his famed workhorse...