Jet America--brought to you by the same fine folks who brought us SkyBus a couple years ago. The Sykbus that let passengers take off on flights when it knew it was moments from shutting operations, stranding these passengers all over the US, and whose employees found out they no longer had jobs when they showed up for work and couldn't get in. The SkyBus that declared bankruptcy and thus never had to refund any of the money it'd received on unused tickets, preferring to let the credit card companies swallow the cost (which if my experience was any guide, they did unwillingly and only after la long fight). Does JetAmerica's "9 seats on each flight for $9" sound familiar? SkyBus had "10 seats on each flight for $10."

I'm really not a cynical person, but it strikes me as ironic and a little bit criminal that the same people who demonstrated they could not run a low-cost carrier with Columbus, Ohio as a base, and whose failure to do so left investors holding a very empty bag (not to mention a fleet of 737's), not to mention employees and passengers, are turning around and doing the same thing in South Bend, Toledo and Lansing. Same model, same region. Who invests in this kind of thing with that track record? Baffling.

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