SkyBus USA

[inveritas]

Sadly Hansol you are wrong. Sean Coyle is Director of Scheduled Revenue but as most people in the know in Ryanair will tell you it is Jim McMahon who is the key to the Scheduling Dept and who drives the aircraft integration and revenues. He will be sorely missed.

Of course Charlie Clifton cannot be an operations FAA accountable Director of Skybus - as he is not a US citizen. He is the man driving Skybus and it's "Ryanization". But the truth is Skybus will be filled with Ryanair senior staff within six months.

Ryanair has few enough competent senior managers - and fewer still coming through - they have so few to lose - that losing 10 is a nightmare.

[brian_dromey]

Originally Posted by flown-it

The standard A319 seats 124 passengers. Skybus has not announced the specific seating configuration of its aircraft, but the airline will use a single-class configuration for all of its flights.
I think the US operators classically seat less than 130. So how are you going to fit in 150 of Americas finest?

* New 150-seat jet aircraft

Actually the "standard" A319 fits 150 in a one class lay out. The high capacity A319 fits 156, has 4x overwings and very, very small galleys. U2 launched this version, and I think it is also operated by Germanwings. It is a fact that American Carriers do not put as many seats in their a/c as european airlines do. Here the A320 regularly seats 174, where as in the US it seats around the 156 mark, even with LCCs, like B6.180 over here is not uncommon either. Similarly the 738 seats up to 189 but in the states its far less, perhaps about 160. Im also pretty sure that even the 739 never had 189(its max) in service in the US.

Americans just havent met the concept of Low-Cost, No Frills, euro style. It means exactly that. NO pillows,NO Seat Recline, NO Space, NO TV, NO Snacks, Drinks etc. I suspect Sky bus will be a "euro style" LCC. I suspect that it will be strongly based upon the FR model. The only reason they have 319 instead of 737? Airbus must have given the a/c away for a song, boeing are not exactly in dire need of new aorders at the present time. Oh, ya the image of a whiskey swagging lawyer must have played significantly on tr Boeing sales teams mind as well!

[Albotross]

Skybus-usa Sucks

The Entire Operation Sucks.

[flown-it]

I stand corrected. I was thinking of the two-class A319s operated by the Legacy carriers in the States. Having suffered in the middle seat deadheading across the States in a legacy A319, I cannot imagine 150 of them accepting the European seat pitch.