JetAmerica Airline $9 fare plus tax

Startup JetAmerica Launches with $9 Fare Offer
Published on: May 28, 2009

Startup carrier JetAmerica has begun selling $9 one-way seats on service schedule to begin July 13. It will serve six cities. Its inaugural roundtrip flights launch from Lansing, Michigan, Melbourne-Vero Beach, Florida, South Bend, Indiana and Toledo, Ohio to New York- Newark, New Jersey. Jet America is also flying roundtrip flights from Toledo and Lansing to Melbourne-Vero Beach. Starting August 14, Jet America will fly roundtrip from Toledo to Minneapolis-St. Paul. According to JetAmerica, passengers flying these routes are cramped into small turbo-prop planes and regional jets. They also must make connections, endure long layovers and pay expensive fares. JetAmerica says it will provide full size, fuel-efficient Next Generation Boeing 737-800 series non-stop jet flights at fares 50 to 70 percent less than major airlines traveling similar but indirect routes.
JetAmerica also is stimulating markets with some of the lowest air fares in the nation that will encourage business travelers as well as people who fly occasionally or do not fly at all to start flying from their hometown rather than from larger out-of-of-town airports, which previously offered better deals. The airline is also looking at other cities, including Chicago/Rockford, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Greensboro/Winston-Salem/Highpoint, N.C.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Fla. The airline’s CEO is John Weikle, founder of SkyBus Airlines, which flew for less than a year and closed in April 2008, citing fuel costs and the economy. For more information, visit www.jetamerica.com.