What's worse is the destination cities affected. Columbus definitely was getting significant growth and benefit from Skybus, but the destination cities were experiencing unprecedented growth and traffic. Some airports hadn't had a commercial carrier for 10 or 15 years. Because of the extraordinary business from Skybus they had begun or were in the process of beginning upgrades to their facilities. Hiring people, construction, expansion. All because of our little startup airline. Now it's all gone, all of that growth and traffic, their economy explosion, turned off in a night.
This is truly tragic on many, many levels.