Low-cost carrier Skybus Airlines said Friday that it was ceasing operations on Saturday, calling itself a victim of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment. The Columbus-based company ...

Did any of you every fly Skybus? Have you even heard of them? If you haven't it's probably because they couldn't even manage to stay in business for a full year. Skybus was an ultra low-cost carrier, ...

Bankruptcy papers for Skybus Airlines show hundreds of companies are owed into the millions of dollars. The low-cost carrier filed papers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware Saturday night. About the ...

If most eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) concepts today were designed as flying alternatives to cars, someone had to come up with similar alternatives to buses and even trains. The ...

SkyBus Airlines, a new discount airline which sometimes offered seats for as little as $10 on flights between Bellingham and Columbus, Ohio, is dropping its service as of Jan. 6. Columbus-based SkyBus ...

A Skybus, sometimes called People-Mover, vehicle sits outside the Bombardier Transportation Company in Pittsburgh's South Park. The cars were tested for several years in the late 1960s as part of a ...

The success or failure of a new discount airline depends on whether some travelers are willing to fly to smaller, secondary airports and then drive 30 minutes or more to reach destinations such as ...

The SkyBus will be able to carry 40 passengers, with a nearly 5-ton payload capacity. With the first prototype expected in 2025, the SkyBus has a projected range of 625 miles, with a maximum speed of ...

Midway between San Diego and Columbus, Ohio, on Skybus Flight 241, attendant Olivia Champ had had enough of “the $10 question.” Yes, there were people who had paid only $10 for a seat on the July 16 ...

While a multitude of companies are jostling to compete in the emerging electric VTOL air taxi market, it's very rare to find aircraft designs carrying more than five people. But British multinational ...

London startup Lyte Aviation is thinking big when it comes to VTOL aircraft. Forget your piddly five-seaters, Lyte says its first aircraft will be a 44-seat monster with a 300-km/h (186-mph) top speed ...

If you’re a fan of chaos theory and/or Ashton Kutcher movies, you’re already familiar with “the butterfly effect,” which posits that seemingly small events can have large and unforeseen consequences.