Well, it was fun while it lasted, wasn’t it, Maxjet?
This Christmas Eve, Maxjet, the budget airline flying among New York, London, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, filed for bankruptcy, ending a tumultuous four year journey through the uncharted realm of business-class-only jets.
It was a great idea, offering a low cost alternative to canonical first and business class tickets, but finding traction in a notoriously fickle and petty market is difficult — even without atrocious oil prices. Maxjet’s unfortunate entry into the airline world at this critical time proved to be a death sentence for their company. It’s too bad, I would have liked to fly business class on them some day.
Farewell Maxjet. I hope you gave all of your employees huge Christmas bonuses before you shut your doors.