Reply #7: New discount airline hits US skies with 10 dollar fares [View All]

[ozymandius]

CHICAGO (AFP) - A new discount airline hits US skies in May with fares as low as 10 dollars.

The carrier called Skybus promises to sell at least 10 seats on every flight for just 10 dollars -- or 40 cents less than taxes customers will also have to pay.

"Beginning today, passengers can buy airline tickets for less than the cost of a tank of gas," Bill Diffenderffer, chief executive officer of Skybus said in a statement Monday.

"They are not 'promotional' fares that will go away in a couple of weeks. These are the everyday low fares we promised when we began working to build Skybus."

Most of the cut-rate fares were gone by mid-morning Monday, although the airline still had fares as low as 50 dollars each way to Los Angeles or San Francisco for those willing to book more than four months in advance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070430/bs_afp/usairlinecompany